TALE OF BRUTALITY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1361, 24 January 1905, Page 2

TALE OF BRUTALITY.

SHOOTING DOWN WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

CHILDREN KILLED WHILE PLAYING ON THE ICE. FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE KILLED OR WOUNDED. By Telograph Presa Association—-Copyright Recoived 11.84 p to., Jan. 23. St. Petersburg, Jan 23. A crowd of strikers wero ridden down in Bohlussolborg road. Rioters trying to force Trouski, tho chief bridge, were charged and sabred. A subsequent rush of ten thousand strikers there received tbreo volleys, and wero thereafter charged. They momentarily dispersed elsewhere. Hugo gatherings resolved to flock to tho Palace or perish. Strikers at Alexander Gardens fruitlessly tried to force tho goto and enter tho Square, which crowds from other directions entered. Two volleys wero fired at the crowd, also subsequent volleys, killing and wounding among others twenty-six children sliding on tho ice in the Gardens. After tho Square was cleared the troops on tho Novcsky sido of tho street volleyed at tho fugitives. The victims included many women and children. A moderate estimate of tho total is two thousand, out of five thousand, killed or wounded. Tho mob at Novcsky, enraged, tore up and hurled stones, immuring sevoral officers, wresting tho swords and epauiottos. The Grand Duke Alexis had the windows of his residence smashed. Tho mob at Moscow Gate seized an oil store.

SOLDIERS SHOOT DOWN UNARMED PEOPLE.

WORKMEN ARMING AND RE SUMING STRUGGLE.

DYNAMITE FACTORY SEIZED. A BLOODY STRUGGLE. By Telegraph—Pro.s Association —Copyright Received 11.34 p.m., Jan 23. London, Jan. 23. A Router message states that msii, women, and children fell with each volley in the Square. They were quickly removed in ambulances and carts. Students of every class of society were mingliDg at Nevesky in the evening. Exasperated soldiers made a ruthless attack on tho unarmed crowd. The soldiers bivouacked in the Square, where camp kitchens were installed. The workmen’s forces are now separated. At Vassalie they erected two barricades. The soldiers destroyed them and killed thirty people. Vassalie was plunged into darkness, and the shops were pillaged. A dynamite factory has been seized. Workmen aro arming and resuming the struggle. To-day strikers started towards Tzarstoi Selo. They met four companies of infantry and two squadrons of cavalry and a battery. A bloody conflict ensued. Many wero shot in orossing the Neva.

CROWD NOT DISPERSED BY REPEATED VOLLEYS. 40,000 ARMED STRIKERS MARCHING TO ST. PETERSBURGFATHER GAPON’S COURAGEOUS ACTION.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Received at 12.7 a.m., Jan. 24. St. Petersburg, Jbd. 23. Despite repeated volleys the crowds at Vassili were not dispersed. The mob are trying to barricade Nevesy.

Blue jackots relieved some infantry patrols. Trains from Warsaw are working with difficulty. It was reported at midnight that forty thousand armed strikers at Kalping are marching to St. Petersburg. Cossuckß in the vicinity of the Palace charged tho sightseers and strikers indiscriminately. Onlookers, at the sight of tho tragedy and the women’s grief, raised frantio shouts, cheoring wildly for liberty, and unoovoring as the cortege of dying passed. Thirty vehicles bore the wounded at one stage.

Count Muravieff on Saturday night sent for, and conferred privately with, Father Gapon, The lattor afterwards informed the strikers that he despaired of the Government granting redress. The Czar was good, and they must all go to the Palace with their wives and children. He did not believe the soldiers would attack their oountrymen: He wrote to tho Czar at the eleventh hour : 11 1 fear Ministers have not told you the full truth. The whole of the people are trusting you, and assembling in the square to inform you of its needs. If vacillating you need not appear. Wo trust in you to appear beoause innocent blood will flow between you and the people. I and bravo workingmen comrades guarantee the inviolability of your person.”

A RIGHT FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL. A GRAND DURE CAUSES TROUBLE. THE CZAR WILL NOT VENTURE FORTH. By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright.) Received 12.7 a.m , Jan 24. London, Jan. 23. The Daily Mail says that tho right of laying grievances beforo tho Sovoroign has been possessed from time immemorial by every Russian. The workers, instead of the Czar, had to deal with the Grand Duke Vladimir, whose cruelty and violence arc notorious. Tho Czar at Tzarskoi Selo did not venture to face the people.