TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1507, 15 July 1905, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

A TIME OF LAWLESSNESS,;

By, Electric Telegraph l —PerPress y Association—Copyright. 1 ST. PETERSBURG. J.uly 13Socialists at Wars-aw are insisting on rents being reduced twenty P CD cent •The owners, refusing - to be bound* were put into bags and carried into their own courtyards- and cruelly beaten. Tenants were comnelled to Sign agreements! that they would; only, pay, the rents tho Socialists* Committees consider reasonable. The Czar’s rescript appointing M I Birilcfi remarked that the recent P shocking event in the Biack Sea ha.-I, proved the total laxness of discipline of the crews, and indifference to ■ their duties on the part of .the officers. • - Ho -declared that such exceptionally criminal nets required serf ops investigation anil rigorous punishment.

Received 9.25 p.m., July 14. The Magistrates at Odessa dealt leniently with coses of pillage and incendiarism occurring prior to the state of siege. Tbe lenioncy is interpreted ?os a protest agaiDst bureaucracy and the presence of the military. Count Lamsdorff thanked Roumania for , its friendly co operation in connection with the Kniaz Potemkin’s surrender.

WHOLESALE HANGING. By; telegraph. Press Ass’n. Copyright Received 10.55 p.m., July 14. London, Jol.v 14.

Twenty-four ringleaders of the Odessa disturbances since tho state of siege was declared have been hanged in various prisons. Eighteen more are to be publioiy hanged when General Ign atreff arrives.