RUSSIA'S INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Southland Times, Issue 19727, 23 December 1905, Page 2

RUSSIA'S INTERNAL AFFAIRS

FULMINANT THREAT BY DE

WITTE.

PEASANTS SWAYED BY AN

ORATOR..

COSSACKS AND MUTINEERS

RUSSIA'S DISPLEASURE.

Per United Press Association. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec, 21. Count de Witte threatens to hang any revolutionary in St. Petersburg circulating an appeal to the army to rebel.

The waterowrks’ employes and pro* vision dealers’ servants are excepted from the operations of the Moscow strike.

A wholesale peasant rising in tho Baltic provinces is in operation under Maxima, a wonderful orator, who, is blindly obeyed. Towns, villages, and chateaux have been seized and placed under the , revolutionary executive. The rebels arrested six German nobles for organising militia for their protection. Cossacks fired the Tomsk barracks, burning many mutinous soldiers. They' also massacred 120 mutineers at Vladivostock. Russia, has notified Germany of her displeasure at the proposed despatch of German warships to Russian waters, although there are 14,000 German subjects in the Riga district alone to protect.

LONDON, Dec. 21. The Times' Constantinople correspondent states that there is a growing feeling that the Sultan should send a corps to the Caucasus to stop the massacres, Russia being unable or unwilling to prevent them. MINOR INCIDENTS. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 22. Received 22nd, 9.48 p.m. Tho Czar declined audience to Gouchkoff, who is Mayor of Moscow, and was summoned to St. Petersburg to participate in an electoral conference. Four per cents, early yes-t'erday fell in St. Petersburg to 75. Crowds are in the markets buying stores of provisions. Martial layw has been proclaimed in Moscow, where some of the troops are in sympathy with-strikers. Part, of the garrison of KharkofT joined a rebel procession and the rest refused to fire.