THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

West Coast Times, Issue 13670, 1 November 1905, Page 2

THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

St Petersburg, Oct 30 The leaders of the reactionary party at St Petersburg are doing tLeir utmost to exite the Czar to direct General Trepoff commander of the garrison of St Petersburg, to use the troops against thettrikern. Itepoffcomm nds 108,000 men with 23 machine guns. Count Witte has expressed amazement that anyone cou'd desire to mow down people when they are behaving in an orderly manner, as they are iv Si Petersburg. • The freedom which Count Witte ba* granted the press is merely to permit them to temporarily discuss tbe Duma elections, There have been so far no resumptions of work amongst th* railway striken-. At St Petersburg there have been but few disturbances. A large number of tbe justices of the peace there have refused to bear cases. All the performers at the Imperial Theat-e in St Petersburg bave decided to strike. London, Oct 30 Tbe Daily Maill declares that General Trapoff has complet'ly cowed the popu? lace of St Peteroburg. (Received Occ 31 at 10-15 p.m.) St Petersburg, Oot 31 There bava been terrible encounteis in the streets of Odessa betwe9n rioters and the military, since Sunday. Tho barricades erected were manned by striken end others, but tbe Cossacks and gendarmes volleyed on them tgdia aud again. Tbe mob, having become f rer.aed, rubbed into houses and climbed into garrets, hotly pursued by the trjops. How many victims there were in this fighting is not known exactly, but 20 are known to bave been killed and 200 w»unded when the Cossacks btq mcd the barricades 1 The scenes oof. f bloodshed were dreadful. The bodies of the victims were instantly removed by the police. Some of the Odessa workmen have compelled tbe clojicg of shop* aud.

have overturned a number of tramcars there At the port of Reval, on the Baltic, bloody conflicts are in progreg*, and.BO far the troops have killed 45 and wounded nearly 100 a At Riga a large nnjaber have been ' woanded by thesoldieip. The Cz*r i^ued a manifesto late la«t evening, annoHncmg his determination to grant adequate reforms. There are persistenc reports at Odessa that the crewa of four of the warships of the Black Sea Fleet have murdered Admirals Birileff and Chuknin at the port of Camsun, and that they have sailed for Sebastar.»l under the revolutionary flag Warsaw is now completely isolated, since the crews of the Vistula steamers have stiuck. The only communication between Northern Russia and the rest of Europe ; is via the Great Northern-Finland-Sweedeu cible. The only telegraphic communication to and from Southern Russia is via Odessa and Constantinople.