TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.
DANGER OF FAMINE.
By t-elegraplr. Press Ass’n, Copyright
St. Petersburg, July*l6. Martial law at Odessa will bo continued for six months, despite the appeals of merchants.
London, July 16. The Daily Mail’s St- Petersburg correspondent reports the total failure of crops in many districts in central, eastern, and northern Russia. The enrolment of reserves intensifies the danger of famine.
EXTENBIVE DISORDERS.! S 3
CRUEL COSSACKS.
By "telegraph. Press A'as’n. Copyright Received 9.23 p.m., July 17. St. Petersburg, July 17. Extensive agrarian disorders are anticipated in the southern Russian Baltic provinces after the harvesting. Landowners are demanding the protection of the Government. Terrible severity has momentarily rep.-e?sed a peasants’ outbreak at Kheron. 1100 arrests were made. Cossacks oruelly maltreated tho prisoners, killing some.
FEAR OF ASSASSINATION. ;
By. telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright’ Received 11.55 p.m., Jnly. 17. ’ St.Potersburg, Juiy 17. Owing to SehonvalofFs murder the Czar is unlikely to proclaim a new constitution at Kremlin, but will promulgate it through the Council of the Empire or the Senate.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1509, 18 July 1905, Page 2
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