UNREST IN RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12844, 30 November 1905, Page 5

UNREST IN RUSSIA.

iTHE MUTINY AT SEVASTOPOL. THE BLACK SEA FLEET. DOCKERS AND SOLDIERS FIGHTING. Dnit«d Press Association—Per Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. ST. PETERSBURG, November 28. The Cesarevitclfs Litovsky regiment has joined the Bralystok mutineers. All - are encamped outside Sevastopol. More troops are expected from Odessa and Paolagrad. Baron Molier.Snkomelsky has assumed command. . * / • It is uncertain how many of the Black Sea fleet have joined the mutiny. The newspaper ' Riiss" states that, all the captains and officers arrested have been &ent ashore. The cruiser Otchakoff has certainly mutinied. The Agrarian disturbances continue unabated in intensity. While dockers were unloading a gunrunner in Poti harbour, on the east shore of the Black Sea, -soldiers interfered, and severs fighting ensued, lasting many-hours. Ultimately the soldiers seized ai thousand rifles and 54 boxes of ammunition, The employers at Lodz consented to pay the strikers for the time they were idle, but the authorities vetoed the payment. Tens of thousands of workmen afc Moscow and one thousand maid servants have struck. • Many officers and soldiers at Harbin have been,'arrested. . -«

WHOLESALE ARRESTS IN ST '.- PETERSBURG. AMERICAN; RUFFIANLY ATTACKED ST. PETERSBURG, November 28. There are hundreds of arrests in St Petersburg.-including the editor of a new satirical newspaper. _ The Zemstvoists denounced M. Gurnovo for continuing.M. de Plehve's and General Trepoffs policy of repression. Count de Witte appoints a moderate Zemstvoist successor, i Tsvo ruffians in the St. Petersburg Boulevard attacked Mr Briss, secretary of the American Embassy. The crowd encouragedthem, and shouted " Down with the aristocracy." The Government will dismiss all sailors of over four years' service, thereby getting rid of malcontents. The latter will return to their native villages, and it is feared will increase the discontent in the provinc33.

• A great meeting of aJl< the soldiers at Ashkabad, except the Cossacks, passed a resolution- censuring the troops for firing on the people. The mutineers at Sevastopol held a review in honour of the Dowager Tsafitsa. Regular purveyors furnish them with; food, which has improved. An armed company is guarding the waterworks.

THE ARMY UNRELIABLE. DISAFFECTION SPREADING. THE PEASANTS' REVOLT. Received 10 p.m., November 29th. ST. PETERSBURG, November 29. A spirit of revolt pervades the Army, from Yladivostock to the European frontier. Troops, in Turkestan express thdr determination, to espouse the people's cause. Disaffection is rife in the garrison of Ears. > Troops in St. Petersburg demand changes involving a complete remodelling of the conditions of service. The Manchurian troops declare that it is impossible to exist on the peace pay and rations. The University of Odessa has been closed to prevent officers and soldiers holding a revolutionary meeting. The peasants' revolt is extending in the Baltic provinces and southern Russia. Numbers of them are forming -unions and raising a cry of " Land and Corn." They threaten to take the land by force, to cease paying taxes, and to exterminate all rural authorities. A CONFLICT EXPECTED. Received 11.36 p.m., November 29th. ST. PETERSBURG, November 29. General Neplineff has. been appointed Commander-in-Chief "at Sevastopol. He attacks the mutineers to-day. unless they surrender. The mutineers hold all. the forts except two, and the best part of the squadron, which refused to put to sea.