UNREST IN RUSSIA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8200, 27 December 1904, Page 3

UNREST IN RUSSIA.

RIOTS IN POLAND. United Press Association — By Eleotrio T elegraph — Copyright. (Received December 27, 8.39 a.m.) ST PETERSBURG, December 26. After the celebration of midnight Macs, the workers paraded the town of Radom, in Russian Polc^nd, carrying a red flag, and singing. When the patrols arrived, they were received with shote, and the commander of an infantry regiment was killed, and also one of the workers. SEIZURE OF A PRINTING PREg«. v A SEDITIOUS PROCLAMATION. THE ZEMSTOVS 1 PROGRAMME. (Received September 27, 8.52 a.m.) ST PETERSBURG, December 26. The secret, police have seized at Kieff a private printing press arid three thousand copies of a seditious proclamation addressed to the leading officials of Kieff, Podolia, and Volhyriia, scoffing at thepromised reforms, and urging the people to carry on a relentless war against bureaucracy. At a stormy sitting of the Agricultural Society of Moscow, despite the chairman's opposition, a statement was read, ■•■. signed by twenty-eight members, sympathising with the Zenistovs' programme. A member of the Kostroma branch 'of the Society announced that the latter had passed similar resolutions, but the chairman had resigned. The Moscow junior bar has endorsed the Moscow municipality's reform i-esolutions.