TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1542, 25 August 1905, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

THE FAMINE.

By; .lelegrapS, Press Asa’n, Copyright St. Petersburg, Aug. 23. Crowds of ragged peasants from the famine-stricken districts are arriving at Moscow. Wholesale arrests have been ! made at Warsaw, including a leading Polish Socialist, Excitement prevails at Helsingfors, owing to the removal on a torpedoer of two Russian police who , acted as agents for the provoeaturs of the January disorders. They were tried by Finnish Courts, but allowed to stay in the military hospital for three weeks on the ground of illness, and have now been removed outside Finnish jurisdiction. The first regiment of Hussars at Tsarkoeselo ejected non-commissioned officers from the barraoks for robbing them of pay and rations. : -

THE NEW VOTING SCHEME.

IT WORKS OUT MOST UNFAIRLY

By telegraph. Press Aes’n, Copyright

Reoeivod 10.17. p.m., Aug. 24. •- : St. Petersburg, Aug. 24. There are 6000 Duma voters in St. Petersburg, 12,000 in Moscow, and 700 in Odessa, with rental qualifications. The indignation at Odessa is intense, because with half a million inhabitants it fallowed only, one deputy, the same ae Kirek, with 600 inhabitants. V' " ' <■ The organisation of an electoral campaign is everywhere forbidden. Governors aro imprisoning and exiling many-leading Liberal votors. Officials announco that they have been entrusted with electoral arrangements, and the zemEtvos and municipalities are not allowed to co-operate.

MURDER, PILLAGE AND INCENDIARISM.

By; telegraph. Press Ass’n, Copyright Received 1,7 a.m., Aug. 25, St. Petersburg, Aug. 24, There were grave disturbances in various parts of Oourland yesterday, with incendiarism, pillage and murders. The Czar’s portraits were destroyed and public buildings and farmers' houees destroyed.