AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA
COSSACKS BEATING MEN. WOMEN, AND CHILDREN,
By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright.) ST, : PETERSBURG, April 30. A ukase cancel's peasants!’ debts,, iam-oi-'cting to 75 million roubles,, Which borrowers have been, made to p.ay off, owing to bad. harvests. The debts ha,ve been ranging in a number of coses since 1857, Cossacks at Dailyshori are terrorising Jews, beating men. Women, and children oven in the synagogues,. There is much ho;USeb reading. The police are powerless. The Jewish hospital is Full of wounded. In a conflict between the -troops and the strikers at Czestaxjhjowa four were killed and twenty women .were WU'-hUed,,
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY,
By Telegraph— Preßs Association—Copyright Received 10 5 p.m., May 1. St. May 1. The Russian Government has decided to remove under a deoree conceding liberty of worship the restrictions against Orthodox dissenters, Roman Catholics, Mohamedans, and Buddhists. The religious reforms have been received with enthusiasm as heralding a concession of political liberty.
London, May 1. The Daily Mail’s St. Petersburg correspondent states that no religious reliel has been granted to the Jews.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1443, 2 May 1905, Page 2
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