THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2668, 3 May 1905, Page 19

THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

THE PANIC INCREASING.

SOME REFORMS GRANTED.

THE HERALD OF POLITICAL

LIBERTY.

COSSACKS AND THE JEWS.

CANCELLING DEBTS OF PEASANTS

LIBERIY OF WORSHIP.

JEWS NOT INCLUDED.

A REIGN OF TERROR.

PERSECUTING THE JEWS.

ST. PETERSBURG, April 26.

M. Buliguine positively declares that he will recognise the principle of equality of races and creeds at ths forthcoming elections.

Anril 27.

The bakers' strike in Moscow terminated hy compromise.

Extra precautions have been taken at Warsaw to prevent May Day disturbances. The garrison- now numbers 57,500.

Many preventive arrests have taken place in St. Petersburg.

There are alarming rumours that the reactionaries are engaging the services of desperadoes to attack the intellectual classes.

The panic at Moscow and St. Petersburg is increasing, owing to rumours of an impending outbreak of the populace. There has been an unprecedented) exodus of the aristocratic and middle classes, and th-ere are widespread fears of extensive disorders in the provinces.

The police are often accused of deliberately inciting the masses against the intellectuals.

April 28.

One hundred) thousand troops are stationed in this city, with a view to any disturbances on May Day. Hundreds of arrests are made nightly. April 30.

An Imperial Ukase cancels the peasants' debts, amounting to 75,000,000 roubles (about £12,000,000), in a number of the Enssian provincial governments. This action is the result of the bad harvests which have been experienced since 1857. Tne Cossacks at Bialystok, in Western Russia, with a population of 63,927, out of which 42,000 are Jews, are terrorising the -Jews. They, are beating the men, women, and children even in the- synagogues, and housebreaking is common. The police are powerless, and the Jewish hospital is full of wounded.

In a conflict between troops and strikers at Czenstochowa four were killed and 20 wounded.

May 1. The Russian Government has decided to remove under the decree conceding liberty of worship the restrictions against Orthodox dissenters, Roman Catholics, Mohammedans, and -Buddhists.

The religious reforms have been received with enthusiasm, as heralding the concession of political liberty.

LONDON, May 1. The Daily Mail's St. Petersburg correspondent states that no religious relief is granted to Jews.