RUSSIA.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 511, 19 May 1909, Page 7

RUSSIA.

—»- —. POLICEMEN KILLED BY TERRORISTS; ;■_/ .;■■•;• PRISON HORRORS. ; ,DI T««oßirn—PßEsa association—corrmonr.l • St. Potersburg, May ,17. . Two Polish terrorists killed , the chief of police at-Lublin, capital of tho province of 'thai; name in Russian Poland, Tho'y also shot three policemen. Both men havo been arrested. .''■''{ The. Social Democrats, are complaining in the Duma of tho horrors of the prisons at :Orel, Moscow, Tiflis, Sevastopol, and Eka- 1 : terinoslayi ' ' Tho prison at the last-named place, with accommodation for 230 persons, contains 1200, of-whom 192 are suffering: from typhoid ifever, yet their chains havo not been re-' moved. ...... ■'. SOCIALIST PROTESTS, Some time ago, when the Russian Government asked for a credit of for tho' pensioning of gaolers who havo been injured in the discharge 'of their duties, the' Socialist Deputies in the Duma took occasion to dwell on the horrors of the Russian prison system ■But the majority of the Duma paid little heed to revelations which- in tho first Duma would have raised a tempest. The-'St. Petersburg correspondent of the "Daily • Mail" wrote! While M. Rosanofr, one of the Socialist Deputies, - referring to prison scandals which tho Government made no attempt to remedy, the head of the Prisons Department sat complaoently, in the Ministerial box and'the House gossiped so riM-sio. rilW" I l'TH d,oteul ( f0l? "Ported t catch the words of the speeches. ■ "The Social Democratic and Labour speakers denounced the inquisitorial methods which thev alleged were in voguo in Russian prisons describing cases m-.whioh. prisoners had been i tortured and even ki led, and - acentfnir Hf Kurloff (the Prisons Director) ™21 7 M ordering, inhuman floggings in the SchlueW burg Prison because political prisoners would npt stand up when he entered their colls M. Rosanofr alluded to the fnot that recently there were twenty . hang gs and thirty-seven death sentences in a single day, and asserted that owing to tho rigoroi, prison regime 60 per cent, of the prisoners developed consumption. . ••'.- uc "The Duma finally, adopted the credit tho majority including the Constitutional Deme. crats. ..... ™'