28 JANUARY 1905, page 17

News Of The Week.

T HE great strike in St. Petersburg has ended in a great catastrophe. The workmen who "went out" agreed to make a petition to the Czar, and resolved to present it to the Emperor......

The Petition Which Was To Be Presented To The Czar

was evidently drawn up by workmen and Socialists together, and contains, besides requests for reasonable improvements, such as a minimum wage of 12s. a week, many unreasonable......

So Far The Facts Are Clear ; But From This

point the narrative becomes confused. It is said, for instance, that the Czar remained at Tsarskoe Selo ; that be fled to Peterhof ; that he escaped to Gatschina ; that he......

Only In Repression. General Trepoff, An "iron-fisted"...

for unscrupulous severity, has been appointed Governor-General of St. Petersburg—a new office —with practically absolute powers. He supersedes the Minister of the Interior as......

Stories Have Been Received Of A Great Strike Organised At

Moscow ; of a furious struggle at Radom (Poland), where the Reservists joined the strikers and fired on the soldiery ; of grave apprehensions at Odessa ; of a kind of revolt at......

*** The Editors Cannot Undertake To Return Manuscript, In...

case.......

11e (*proctator

No. 3,996.] FOR THE rEBOISTERED LIS A I PAWS AD. WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1905. Lra w orAZ I LD Br B°5" 11::......

......