THE RUSSIAN. UPHEAVAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2664, 5 April 1905, Page 19

THE RUSSIAN. UPHEAVAL.

ATTEMPT ON TREPOFF'S LIFE.

THE RISING IN THE CAUCASUS.

FIRING ON THE PEASANTS.

OUTRAGES AND RIOTS,

A BOMB-THROWER.

A POLICE COMMISSIONER

WOUNDED.

JEWISH SOCIALISTS FIRED ON.

FOUR KILLED AND FORTY

WOUNDED.

ST. PETERSBURG, March 29.

Russian 4 per cent, stock at St. Petersburg declined to 85 owing* to alarming reports from Poland (which is placed ■under martial law), the spread of agrarianism in tlie Crimea (where the Imperial properties "were pillaged), the explosion of bombs, at Yaltai, and the absence of war news.

Many St. Petersburg mill-owners are closing their establishments until M. •K-okovtsofFs Commission has reported on the industrial crisis. This has largely increased the unemployed.

A conference of marshals and the nobility held at Moscow resolved by 16 to 4 that the situation required the prompt convocation of a National Assembly, with the right to initiate legislation and control the .Budget. .

March 31

Bussian ministers are disposed to make concessions regaading the use of the Polish language until the German Government strongly protested, fearing to intensify the education difficulties at Pcsen.

A detective has arrested a disguised man, •who confessed that ius -was about to attempt General TrepofFs life.

Thf agitation in the Caucasus is alarming/ 1 especially in the Gori district. The peasants destroyed the lists for military service, rendering mobilisation difficult. They are coercing the land owners to surrender lands. Many estates have been abandoned. The soldiers fired on 3000 peasants parading the ,sireets of Gori, wounding 10.

Outrages and riots are reported from all parts of Russia. Seven thousand armed peasants afc

Ichenniagoff routed a small force of gen■darmes who attempted to suppress pillaging-.

An attempt to murder the police officials •was made yesterday at Dvinsk, Sukum, 'J&iga, and Krementohug.

A ran. is beginning on many savings banks.

General Trepoff has arrested ten Terrorists, including several members of the inner circle.

A bomb was discovered in a room in the Palais Royal Hotel, St. Petersburg.

Peasants looted Princess Yusupofl's estate at Veronezh.

The distress at Kharkoff is being aggravated by the authorities retaining the soldiers' families' allowances to pay arrears of taxes.

Outrages and murders of officials in the Caucasus are growing daily.

Prince Mestehorski protests that Prince Aleseieff is still drawing a salary of £30,000 for his Vice-royalty in the Far East while residing with a vast suite at the Hotel de L'Emope at St. Petersburg, •while soldiers' families are reduced to begging and -the eastern .half of Siberia is threatened with famine, wliicli has already begun at Irkutsk.

April 2

The police, noticing two sleigh-drivers and a messenger on a bicycle frequently following officials' carriages, airested 12 revolutionaries in St. Petersburg, and discovered a bomb laboratory. Papers were also seizad showing the .existence of a plot hatched in Switzerland.

The Council of Ministers has postponed the opening of the universities till the autumn. In the event of disturbances upon resumption, it intends to expel the

students and dismiss the professors and introduce a new system.

! It is officially reported that the Czar has Pre-established the irremovability of the STinland judges. The recruiting of soldiers in Finland has been suspended.

April 3.

M. Sambolourez, Police Commissary at Lodz, was waylaid and terribly injured by a bomb in revenge for the killing of a Socialist in the recent disturbances. A policeman standing near fatally wounded the thrower of the bomb.

One thousand, mostly Jewish, Socialists were "holding a procession in Warsaw headed by a red flag, with a view to conducting a memorial meeting for their late leader. They nx?t 20 soldiers and police patrolling the streets. According to ths police the Socialists fired with revolvers on the patrol leaders, inciting the mob to attack. Several volleys were fired into the crowd. Four Jews were killed and 1 40 Jews wounded, including two women. Many arrests were made. LONDON, March 28. There are serious peasant riots in the Tifiis district.

Baron Nolken, chief of the Warsaw police, is recovering despite his 120 distinct wounds, caused by a bomb which was thrown into his carriage.

The Czar, in his rescript, directs the Governor of Poland, -while lawfully suppressing artificially-supported disturbances, to proceed with the reforms -which had been found necessary for the territory's prosperity.'

Thousands of copies of tlie Agence Latine's telegram attributing the Russian disorders to England and Japan are being circulated among the peasants.

March 30.

Russian 4's again fell several points owing to increasing pessimism over the war and the delay in conceding real reforms. French correspondents declare that the ■whole of Russia is in a state of effervescence. Several priests in St. Petersburg have joined the reformers.

The insurgents' movement in Georgia, in tte province of the Trans-Caucasia, is spreading, and a provisional Government has been proclaimed by the rebels Local troops are insubordinate.

A state of anarchy prevails in Batoiun, Erivan, and Kars.

March 31. The Czar has suspended the enforcement of conscription in Finland for three years. According to French advices, the concession is in exchange for the Finlanders' offer of half a million sterling in the present crisis.