CIVIL WAR!

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7999, 9 December 1905, Page 2

CIVIL WAR!

PARTITIONING THE LAND. KIEFF IN A STATE OF SIEGE. AN ARSENAL SEIZED AND ARMS DISTRIBUTED. FLIGHT OF FATHER GAPON, Received December 7, 10.10 p.m. St. Petbishubu, Dec. 8. Owing to peasant terrorism in Lovonia many of the inhabitants have iled, abandoning their homes and property. The peasants at Astrakhan have decided to subdivide the land each receiving four acres They we also endeavouring to seize the State forests, Troops have been sent to Astrakhan. There is similar news from Kazan. Loyal troops are in possession of th<j> central and commercial quarters of Hielf, while the insurgents are in possession of the Pichersky quarter and the fortress. A thousand sappers end others have joined the strikers, and barricades have been erected in the ftreet.

Insurrectionary troops are masters of Novorosiaysk, which is sub-divided, into military districts, perfect order ueing maintained.

Mutineers seized the Ekaterinodas irsenal and 16000 rifles. A portion of theso was distributed locally, the remainder being sent to arm the prole. ■ % fcariat at Novorosiaysk. Father Gapon has fled to Paris,

A revolt has occurred at Elizabethpal.

FURTHER SLUMP.

SERIOUS HUN ON THE BANKS.

DE WITTE'S FAILURE ENGEN., DERS DESPAIR. Heceivod 8, 10.20 p.m. St. Petebsbijbo, December 8. A great slump took pbieo on the 3ourse on Wedncslay, four por cents 'ailing to 74. Many of Jthe Banks are in a most precarious condition, 60,000 roubles being withdrawn daily.

Count de Witte's lack of inventive resource, and his failuro to devise tho.se Heroic measures which are demanded >n all Bides, has produced dcspiir unong his supporters, jnuL .•csentment among others.

There is a growing fear thit the troops at Moscow will rise.

THE RAILWAY TROUBLE. HEAVY LOSSES. Recoived 8, 10,20 p.ni.' St. Petbbsbubo, December 8. The Government loss through the railway, strike totalled four millions iterling in passenger traffic, and tho loss consequent on the telegraph and postal strike is £40,000 daily. GENERAL SAKHAROFF.S MURDER APPROVED. RAILWAY STRIKE SPREADS. Received 9, 1.10 a.m. St. Pbtbbsbcbo, December 8. Russian opinion tacitly approves of General Sakharoff's murder, owing to the wholesale knoutings of villagers, and nameless outrages perpetuatod by drunken Cossacks upon women under the eyes of tho Czar's pacific peasants at Bielostok, Kieff, and Kharkoff. The Eketarinoslaw railway men have struck in sympathy with the telegraphists.

FURTHER MASSACRE OF JEWS. / ' BANKERS THREATEN TO CLOSE. Received 0,0.14 a.m. St: I'ktbesbubo, December 8, , Hooligans at ICieJf, led by the ' Black Hundred, and maddened with vodka, massacred 1500 jews, students and reformers on Monday and Tuesday '< nights. j The bankers of Warsaw warn Count do Witte that they will close unless the telegraphist strike is soon ended, OFFICERS RESIGN. LANDLORDS WANT TO SELL OUT, Sr. PkTKB6BI>BG, f. ! The as,ussin declares that she obeyed . j the Revolutionary Committee's instntc- y tions to revenge General Sakharoff's cruel treatment of the peasantry. Many officers in St. Petersburg have 3 resigned on the ground that the Czar's M manifesto overlooks the army. Landlords are besiegiug the Peasant s'.' Bunk iu Moscow, offeriug to sell theirproperties at two-thirds of their value* I totalling 12 million stlinger. X The law officers released the peasoaft / chiefs there being no grounds for {rose- f ration, but the Prefect rourrestecL / * Ihom. .