THE REVOLUTION

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1500, 6 December 1905, Page 2

THE REVOLUTION

-? —"V-,| Expected Flight ol the Czari. I _ ( 'Prisoners Fire a Gaul Preu A^oiatdon.^opynght. 1 St. Petersburg, Deo. s IT is reported at Kronstadt that : the presence of a German squadron: in the' Baltic is considered to portend the flight ot the Czar. St Petersburg telegrams sent to the'-frontier, for transmission: iniii ; | cate that the situation is extremely critical. . There are peasant .risings.in all parts. 0 The-prisoners set fire to the>prison of the "disciplinary battalion near ■Varoriezh, and a row of shops was buined. The prisoners, with mutineers be-: longing 10 the battalion, '.together uumbering 100, vainly attempted lo release the inmates of the civil prison, and hud a sharp encounter with the leguliite. ' A. numbef were wounded or captured, and the romainUffr. escaped, <

Anctlier Strike at Moscow Dreadfu! ftesaci'e Views of Falliur Gap ' St Petersburg, Dee, 5 ■ The houseporters at Moscow have struck, They objected to being con. sidered police servants.• ; An ■ official 'investigation shows that massaorefl, occntred, and that J there wore 130 casualties, i < Father Gapon. ill the conree of an i interview, declared: "The.' ex- > tremists make a grave tactical mis--1 take in expecting democratic, inetituHons'- immediately. Tho .workers' J nerves, liave been stretched to tho t breaking point bv the feverish propa- . gondaof the extreme parties, and ! unless the revolutionists are more 0 cautious, unless the workers' leaders r refrain from rushing into action and then withdrawing when tens of Ij thousands are-cast into the streets, 1 coltl anil hungry, their revolutionary 0 spirit will weaken, and the masses, it losing their self-respect, will join the !• Black Hundred and the dregs, of 1 society." The, outbreak at Kieff was due to the commander's brutality.to the

officers and some of the soldiers. Expected Kutiay at Kisbinefl Slump in Bussiah Securities St. Petersburg, Dec. 5 The 33ril Artillery Brigade at Kiskineff are ripe , for mutiny. SerioiiE disturbances are reported. There are indications of a military outbreak. LONDON) December 5 . An enormous quantity of Russian securities have beeti thrown oti the Berlin bourse. A serious fall occur- , red there, mid .also in Paris and .London; but a slight.recovery occur, red later, ; ; •

Mtitnde ,ol France Russian Peasants' Vandalism Mutinous Soldiers in the Far Eas Paris, December 5 M. Rouvier, replying to the, cialist Deputies' declaration tha Franco was making common catisi with the Russian revolu'tionarief said that the great majority v of th< nation would repudiate such words The Government intended to remaii faithful to friendly allied'nations They were not called upon to inter, fero with the Russian home policy The Chamber, sanctioned thi atatenieritby a show of bauds.; I then resumed the debate on the Budget, ' St, Petersburg, December 5 Peasants in several provinces ;liavi . killed all the cattle required for,food and have slaughtered the''rest: t< intimidate the ' landlords, 'l'hej have also burnt large stores of con: and agricultural implements. / Phris, December 5 The Figaro's St. Petersburg corvpspondent states that Count de Witte has submitted to the Minister! a soheme of universal suffrage.'' Shanghai, Decembers Pelrin reports that the soldiers al Harbin are forcibly seizing food, and have murdered several regi' mental commanders, Massacre of Jews

Impressive Demonstration in - In York New York, Deoombor 5, As a demonstration of mouminf "•for their brethren mitssaurod in.Rua. eia, a hunt]rod tbouaand Jowa march' 6(1 in procession, attirod in crape anc carrying blaot banners, 011 tho onai side of the streets of New York, Bands ■ played, and. the synagogue choirs sang dirges, In the New York Jews' procession lli Labour Socialists, representing Russian revolutionary organisations: ~ resented the . Sevastopol mutineers being tried by court martial