TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1557, 13 September 1905, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

THE TARTAR RISING. By, telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright St. Petersburg, Sept. 11. Advloes from Tifiis state tbat 4000 armed Kurds from the Persian bank of tbo Aras river joined the whole Tartar population, whioh has risen in Zangelarst district. Many Armenian villages have been destroyed and hundreds killed. The Russian Vioeroy has made urgent representations to tho Persian authorities.

After ten days’ trial, 75 of the warship George Pobiedonoselz mutineers wore sentenced to death, 19 to penal servitude, aud 83 to disciplinary labor. The rest were aoquitted. The sentence of death passed on Koulikovsky for the murder of Count Sohouvaloff has been commuted to penal servitude for life.

STEAMER WRECKED. SITUATION IN BAKU BECOMING WORSE. By telegraph, Press 'Aas’n, Copyright I Received 11.9 p.m., Sept. 12. St. Fetereburg, Sept. 12. A eteamer with the name painted oat stranded or exploded on an island near lakobstad. The crew perished. The cargo consisted of magazine rifles and revolvers. A portion was recovered. A bomb thrown under the carriage of the Governor of Tavastohuß, Finland, failed to explode. The situation at Baku is hourly becoming worse. Corps of artillery are bombarding the barricades of Tartars and others. Light quarters of the oity have been reduced to ruins. The rioters stubbornly continue the attaoks, and the Tartars and Kurds are plundering the industrial section. Soldiers volleyed into a crowd of Russian workmen, killing 17.