TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1611, 25 November 1905, Page 2

TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

By, telogyaph,. Press Ash'd,, Copyrlgh* St. Petorsbi.ilg, Nuv. 23. Peasants and conscripts at Ekaterinburg rofuso to take tbo oath until tbo demands for lund tiro satisfied. Count do Witto is elaborating the habeas oorpus law. The Zemstvos are discussing the Execu-

tive Committee’s resolution to co-operate with Count do Witto, if ho does not deviato from the oxcoution of tbo manifesto, and recommending swieping loforms. The Buss states that if military dictatorship is set up tho whole country will strike, confining tbo Czardom to tbo Grand Duoby to Tzarskoesolo. It reminds Count jdo Witto of the fates of Stafford and Charles 1., and demands the raising of tho state of siege, tbo cod of executions, and tho abolition of satraps under tbo Czar’s 1 incompetent aido*. I It is reported that Count do Witto was last weok the victim of a second attack of partial paralysis of tho loft arm, lasting I several hours, with frequent fainting fits.

EXTERMINATING AGITATORS. By telegraph, Press Aos’n, Copyright Received 10.26 p.m., Nov. 24. St. Petersburg, Nov. 24. Owing to the recalcitrancy of workmen on tho eight hours’ question employers hero are closing works to-morrow, erdors boing refused. Tho industry will be dislocated uolosb the demands are abandoned. The Governor-General of Warsaw Becretly instrnc'el ton Governors to consider agitators, rioters, and organisers of gatherings na insurgent’, and shoot themudown until all were exterminated.

The Zemstvo Congress, by a two thirds majority, voted to demand universal suffrage. It held Ministers responsible for the execution of the manifesto, adding: “ All Ministers except tho Minister of the Coart should, as in all constitutional countries, be responsible to the Council of Ministers, in order to prevent the Minister of War aoting independently of his colleagues.”