RIOTS IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 965, 11 August 1903, Page 2

RIOTS IN RUSSIA.

.TWO HUNDRED STRIKERS * KILLED, TWO THOUSAND WOUNDED, WHOLESALE ANARCHY, By, Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright.

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 9

In strike dis mribances at Nikoloicfi troops killed twelve and wounded two hundred men, who tried to storm the .Government spirit depot. It is computed that during the last month two hundred strikers were killed, and two thousand wounded.

LONDON, Aug. 9

The Times declares that a considerable portion of industrial Russis is in a condition bordering on wholesale anarchy.

Dockers sacked many shops at Odessa, throwing tho contents into the sea.

They forced the chief of police to flee, and declare that they will hum the city if the troops shoot.

PLAN ,TQ KILL CZAR PROMP.TL" FOILED. HEAVILY-ARMED ,MAN IN UNIFORM ARRESTED WHILE TRYING TO REACH NICHOLAS.

KIEFF (Russia), June 18,

Two days previous to the departure of the Imperial Court from Czarskoeselo for Peterhof, an attempt on the life of the Czar was prevented in the nick of time. The would-be assassin, clad in the uniform of a superior officer of gendarmes, an audience with the Emperor on a specious pretext, but falling under suspicion was • arrested and searched. It was found that the was carrying two revolvers and other weapons. He is said to have confessed his sinister intention. ' v No particulars in regard to the identity of the prisoner have been allowed to reach the public. He is Relieved to be an aristocrat. 1 The affair has been hushed up. The Czar has been in a highly nervous condition since the Belgrade assassinations.