TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1594, 26 October 1905, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

THE BIG LOAN. SOME CONCESSIONS TO THE PEOPLE. Bjs telegraph, Presß Ass’n, Copyright Received 10.8 p.m., Oofc. 26.

Paris, Oct. 26. Dotails of the loan cabled on the 4th ohow that a total of 1151,000,000 at 4 per cont. is issuing with u minimum of 90. Twenty-six million is reserved for France, £4,000,000 each for Britain and America, the remainder befog for Germany. St, Petersburg, Oot 25, 1 Government intend to grant liberty of the press, the right of association, public meeting, and to endow peasants with State I lands. , Apparently it is not Intended to voluntarily grunt a constitution beforo the mooting of tho Duma, hoping that the ! concession will allay tho constitutional I movement without extension of the suffrago or endorsement of tho legislative I oharaoter of tho Duma, but the indications are the other way.

the great strike.

MORE RIOTING,

By, telegraph* Prese 'A'sa’n, Copy.ri'gh'

Boceived 10.56 p.m., Oot 25. St. Petersburg, Oct 25. The stoppage of the Nikolai railway deprives St. Petersburg of 70 daily trainloads of provisions. Seven thousand Moscow strikers damaged the St. Petersburg railway, also the aqueduots supplying a portion of Moscow with wator. Massed, and armed workmen are demonstrating at Karkoff. Cavalry are dispersing them. Disturbances, accompanied by looting, occurred at Ekaterinoslar. The fresh reform strikes have thrown j idle 36,000 workers at Lodz and Pabianoe. The Bt. Petersburg railway men’s deputation to tho Bussian Government was threatening by demanding universal suffrage.