THE REVOLT IN RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12868, 2 January 1906, Page 5

THE REVOLT IN RUSSIA.

REBELS MAKE A LAST STAND. "■ i GREAT LOSS LIFE-. OF THE STRIKE, United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. .Received 9.35 a.m., January Ist. ST. PETERSBURG, December 3J.. Ten .thousand rebels made their last stand ill the.: Prisna Quarter. .. They barricaded 4iie streets, finally taking .refuge in Proksoroff factory,' Which the infantry .and cavalry surrounded and. bombarded for hours..- Two hundred rebels and seven soldiers/wete killed. ''The^council of -workmen of St. Petersburg have; decided to close the strike on Monday, and to organise an armed insurrection. * REVOLUTIONARY MOTOieatt checked. ORDER RESTORED AT MOSCOW. ! Received 9.60 a.m., ..Jaiiuarv 15t.... '■ ST. PETERSBURG, -December '31,. It is semi-officially 'claimed at ; §i>. sf;*ersbarg that the revolutionary has been checked, and *hat a cotofcollapse is only a matter of a, feir Sv% e ks. - Order, has been concretely restored in Moscow, aid factories and shops have reopened. - A squadron of Cossacks stepped an openair meeting of 3000 workmen at St Petersburg An officer split open the head , 1 leaaer, -sr-ho protested . against • inf ' ference with the workmen,-... The 1qn. officer, and ' .:**?!

s Cossacks; 27 workmen were ikilled an g many wounded. - e ; Six hundred Socialists have been arrestc ® at Lodz. .. . * Two hundred metiers of the Mosco--8 social revolutionary committee have bee ' arrested. Immense numbers of bombs wei 8 seized. 1 INSTRUCTING. THE OFFICIALS. 5 Received 9.36 p.m., January Ist. 1 ■ ST. PETERSBURG, January 1. * A Government proclamation states tha - the chief aim is to restore order, and: er [ force the manifesto of 30th October. 01 ficials : opposing the Government's ideas o refusing to obey must give way to thos prepared to serve the authorities faithfully ; MOSCOW AN EXAMPLE. : THE HEALTH OF THE CZAR. ; TWO REGIMENTS DISARMED. Received a.m., January 2nd. LONDON, January 1. The Standard's " Moscow correspondent .. describes the ruthless repression by means of artillery, as intended' to prevent a similar rising in St. Petersburg. : - Five hundred projectiles were fired -into a r quarter, mostly of wooden houses, firing "them with a view of smoking out* the rebels. Ambulances recovered 200 dead and 800 wounded, all non-combatants. Fatal bomb outrages are reported from Odessa, and peasant excesses in Batoum. '" The. " Times " St. Petersburg correspondent says it is rumoured that the Czar has had a recurrence of epileptic strokes. " The miners of Donetz have captured several towns, and disarmed two regiments sent to subdue them. Revolutionary casualties at Presna numbered , 600. :