THE RUSSIAN REVOLT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10526, 29 November 1905, Page 3

THE RUSSIAN REVOLT.

(Press Assn. — By Telegi *» ph — Copyright./

ST. PETERiSBUKG, Nov. ÜB.

Tho council of workmen s delegates at St. Petersburg telegraphed congratulations to the Sevastopol mutineers, <>xprc;<biivg a, hope that the, whole anny will follow the example; thai the poletariat and army will put an md to the remnants of autocracy, raising on its ruins a free Democratic State. J lie council threaten u general strike unless the Government reopen the luctoms and reinstate all hands.

The Zemstvo Congress unanimously dtnuumtad. suppression of the ami-Jewisn outbreaks, and insisted that Jews wortentitled to equal rights with otheiiy. Tho president and orgunisers of the peasants congress liave been arrested under martial law.

Private telegrams state that the mutineers axe complete masters of the situation at Sevastopol. The authorities are afraid to use force unlos.s reinfoieed sufficiently to invest the town. Since the railway men and laboreis revolted, it is impassible to bring troops by train.

Sailors make twenty demands for the betterment of their lot. They preserve perfect order.

Thore are persistent rumors ciurent that the Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaievitch will be appointed regent in view of the Czar's intention to go abroad. Admiral CJmkhuiii telegraphed General Kaulbars lute last night that the mutineer*! had quitted the Kniuz Potemkin. Several officers were killed. The situation is very serious. Sailors and the Brest regiment are entrenched in Lazareff barracks, with some guns, and he intended to attack when fresh troops arrived, though he feared that the nrtjllcrvuien would mutiny. (Received Nov. *29, 8.54 a.m.)

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 28. The employers at laklz consented to pay the strikers for the time they were idle. The authorities vetoed the payment.

Ten thousand workmen at Moscow and 1000 maid servants have struck.

Many officers and soldiers at Harbin have been arrested.

There are hundreds of arrests at St. Petersburg, including the editor of a new satirical newspaper. Zeinetvoists have denounced M. Gurnovo for continuing M. Plehve's and General Trepoff's policy of repression. Count de Witte appoints a moderate Zemstvoist successor.

Two ruffians on the St. Petersburg boulevard aitackd Mr Briss, secretary of the American Embassy. ' A crowd, encouraging, shouted ''down with the aristocracy."

The Government dismiss all sailors with over four years' service, thereby ridding the navy of discontents". It is feared there is :m inerea.se of discontent in the provinces.

A great meeting of all soldiers at Ashkabiiil, except Cossuoks, passed a resolution ceustwiug the troops for tiring wi the people. The mutineers at Sevastopol held a review in honor of the Dowager Tsaritsa. Regular purveyors furnish food, which has improved. An armed company -is guarding the waterworks. The Oesereviteh's Litovsky regiment has joined the Bralystok mutineers. All are encamped outside Sevastopol. More troops are expected fmni Odessa ami Paolograd. Baron Moller SakouieU»ky has assumed command.

It is uncertain how ninny of the Black iSfii Hoot have joined tho mutineers.

The Russ states that the captains ami officers arrested have been sent, ashore. The cruiser Otchakoff certainly mutinied. Agrarian- disturbances continue unabated in intensitv.

While the dockers were unloading a gun* runner at Poti harbor, on tin? cast shore of the Black Sea, soldiers interfered. Severe fighting ensued, lusting many hours. Ultimately the soldiers seized :i thoiißiind rifles and 54 boxes of ammunition.

LONDON, Nov. 28. Reuter'iH St. Petersburg correspondent reports that 33 factories, employing 75,000, have directed workmen to cease ■work.

T;he Times eaya that the suppression of tlho congress is a fatal blunder, frinee tho peasants were the last hope of the autocracx.