THE PEASANTS' UNION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11729, 2 December 1905, Page 5

THE PEASANTS' UNION.

MILITARY DISAFFECTION IN-

CREASING.

THE FIGHTING AT SEVASTOPOL.

FURTHER DETAILS.

Received December 2, 7.38 a.m. •ST. PETERSBUEG, December 1. The Peasants' Union is spreading enormously in tho provinces, and the villagers everywhere endorse the resolutions of the Peasants' Congress. Agrarian riots have occurred near Moscow. Disaffected bank reservists in Nigni Novgorod parade the streets singing revolutionary eongs. There is increasing military disaffection in other towns. One hundred and ten thousand workmen arc locked out or have struck in St. Petersburg, and 58,700 aro idle in Moscow owing~to the closing of the factories.