TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 70, 26 March 1901, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

BRUTALITY jOF COSSACKS. AN APPEAL TO THE FOREIGN PRESS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, March 24. Forty-five Russian authorities and professors havo appealed to the foreign press to communicate to tho world tho Cossacks’ ferocious atrocities during tho recent riots upon seventeen inoffensive, unarmed students.

SANGUINARY ENCOUNTER, SOO COSSACKS AND 5000 WORKMEN MEET. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 11.2 p.ui., March 25. St. Petersburg, March 25. A sanguinary’ encounter betweon eight hundred Cossacks and five thousand riotous workmen occurred at St. Petersburg yesterday.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.

FOUR SHOTS FIRED AT SECRETARY OF HOLY SYNOD. MINISTERS THREATENED WITH - ASSASSINATION. COUNCIL MEETING PRESIDED OYER BY CZAR, By Telegraph—Press Assooiation—Copyright Received March 26, 12.16 a.m. St. Petersburg, March 25. Lagorski, a Russian provincial official and a follower of Count Tolstoi, fruitlessly attempted to assassinato K. P. Popiedouostzeff, Secretary of the Holy Synod. Lagorski fired four revolver shots through the study window. The social unrest has created consternation in official circles. Since the Ministers of Justice and Interior and War havo been threatened with assassination., a meeting of tho Council of Ministers is being held to consider tho situation. The Czar is presiding over tho Council meeting.