CIVIL WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8012, 26 December 1905, Page 2

CIVIL WAR.

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

PER UNITED PHESS ASSOCIATION COPYBIGHT.

A HUGE STRIKE. UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE' . GRANTED. THE CZAR'S MESSAGE TO ■ BRITAIN. i St. Petebsduho, December 23. One hundred and twenty-fivo thousj and workers have struck at St. Peters* burg. j London, December 23. J Reuters' St. Petersburg corrospon. dent reports that it has been finally decided to grant universal suffrage in two degrees. The Czar has sent a message to th a Sociological Society in London ex. . pressing his fullest sympathy with all those in Britain showing their willing, ness to be friendly to Russia, adding that everything attributed to him which is contrary to a love of peace and friendship with Britain is abso. lutely false.

SEVERE FIGHTING AT MOSCOW, ARTILLERY GAINS THE DAT. MONUMENT TO AN ASSASSIN. , SERIOUS FIGHT PROCEEDING! HUNDREDS OF ARRESTSMADE, STRIKERS DISPERSED BY DRAGOONS. St. Petebsbdbo, December 24. The troops at Moscow stormed and captured all the street barricades, and frustrated an attempt to capture the Town Hall and the Nicholas Railway Station, chiefly by capturing the work«

men's meeting place. After a duel of revolvers and bomb* versus artillery, the stores of arms and ammunition were seized.. A monument to Seheumftim, General 1 Robrikoff's assassin, is being erected at Helsingboro. He is everywhere named as the Finnish " William Tell." London, December 24. A Berlin telegram states that four ' hundred insurgents, five officers, and thirteen of the troops were killed at Moscow. Two bombs wrecked the police office. A serious fight is proceeding between the armed crowd anu a force of Dragoons. , Other revolutionaries, armed with bombs and revolvers,"arc beßeigfng-4]je residence of the Prefect. S Hundreds of arrests were made at - Moscow, while 500 were arrested a. St. Petersburg on Friday alone. This is having a disconcerting effect or* the strikers.] > A cavalry detachment, during ti: strike demonstration at St. Petersburg, drew their swords and dispersed the procession, several workmen being killed.

LITHUANIANS CAUSING TROUBLE. Received 26, 9.15 a.m. St. Pbteesbpbo, December 24. Several thousand Lithuanians are invading the Province of Vitebsk, sacking and burning Eussian and Pol ish domains, besides attempting seize the St. Petersburg-Warsaw railway, and annex the districts of Begitsa and Lusten to the , Republic o£ Lithuania.

THE FIGHTING AT MOSCOW. CARNAGE AND VODKA. • GOVERNMENT ABOUT TO CRUSH THE REVOLT: EXTENSIVE ESPIONAGE A T ST. PETERSBURG. Received 26, 0.23 a,m. Sr. Petebsbpbg, December 25. Cannon mowed down many. All Saturday night the troops . bivouacked in the principal streets of Moscow, At dawn the troops renewed the conflict, the rebels employing a maxim gun, while the troops replied with grape. They received a double allow. , ance of vodka. Although the fighting is being coa tinued, it is expected the Governmen will be able to strike a crushing bloif at the extreme revolutionaries, and ar» rest almost all the. revolutionary leaders. An extensive system of espionage in force which has rendered St Peters; burg strangely quiet.