REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT COMLPETELY CHECKED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7930, 2 January 1906, Page 5

REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT COMLPETELY CHECKED.

ORDER RESIORED AT MOSCOW. WHOLESALE A U RESIS. Received January 1, 0.33 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 31. It is senii-ofHciali.v claimed in St. Petersburg that thu revolutionary movement has been checked, aud a complete collapse ia ouly a matter of a few weeks. Order has been completely restored in Moscow, aud the factories and shops haro beeu re-opened. A squadron of Ccssuuksstopped an open-air meeting of three thousand workmen iu St. Petersburg. An officer split open tho head of the leader, who protested against the interference. Tho workmen then fired, killing the officer and eight Cossacks. Twenty-seveu workmen were killed aud many wounded. Six hundred Socialists have been arrested at Lodz. Two hundred members of the Mos. cow Social Revolutionary Committee have been arrested aud an immense number of bombs seized.

A GOVERNMENT MANIFESTO. K6oeived January 1, 9.36 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, January 1. A uovornmeut proclamation states that the chief aim is to restore order and' enforce the manifesto of October 30. All officials opposing the Government's ideas and refusing to obay must give way to those prepared to serve the authorities faithfully. THE LATEST ITEMS. Received January 2, 1.25 a.m. 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 one quarter, mostly of wooden houses, firing them with a view to smoking out the rebels. Fatal bomb outrages are reported from Odessa, and peasant excesses from Radoin. The miners at Donetz captured several towns and disarmed two regiments sent to subdue them. The ambulances at Moscow recovered a total of 200 dead and 800 wounded, all non-combatants. The Revolutionary casualties at Presbya numbered 500.