AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1393, 2 March 1905, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA

MASSACRE OF JEWS

MAID SERVANTS STRIKE, AND MANY. ARE ARRESTED., By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association —Copyright. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 28. Ay anti-semitic outbreak in Theodosia originated in an ordinary; sir i ke. Tiio strikers attacking the Prefecture, the latter’s officials replied, T Down with the Jews,!;”' Forty-seven Jews were battered to death' in the Ghetto,, including seventeen women. One hundred and eighty-three were injured. Maxim Gorki was released on bail, which was fixed at ten ‘thousand roubles. Tiie domestic maid servants have struck at Kicff. Cossacks arrested many...

A PLANT DISCOVERED. By .Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. Received 10.23 p.m., March l. ; ST. PETERSBURG, Mar, 1, Aj secret store of revolvers, .bombs, and dynamite has been discovered, in Moscow suburbs. Tiie Government closed Putilofl .Works, Nevsky shipyard* because many, men refused to resume work*

ASSASSINS AT WORK* TWENTY-SIX* VICTIMS ®N A’ WEEK,. A ‘DEATH FOR A DEATH. ’ By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. Received 11.22 p.m., March 1. ST, PETERSBURG, March 1. There were twenty-six political assassinations at Warsaw last week. The strikers declare that they, intend to kill an official ton every man the • troopers killed during the disfcurbances. Most of the victims were stabbed at night in the streets, and a paper pinned to their clothes exspainihg why they were condemned to death, Np arrests have been, made.