TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1559, 15 September 1905, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

ONE ARMENIAN DEFENDER KILLS 47. B/ telegraph, Press Ass'n, Copyright St. Petersburg, Sept. 18. The Armenians aro making a desperate dofenoe. Ono dofendod his house at Baku for tbroo hours, his wifo and son loading guns. Ho killed 47 and woundod many bofore he Was overpowered. Tho Novoo Vromya hints that Russia seeks aggrandisement on the Dardanelles. Tho abandonment by Russia of a scheme to furnish tho northern railway linos with Russian coal noocssitatcs tho importation of a quarter of a million tons of British coal.

Washington, September 18. M. de Witto and baron Roßen have left Atnorioa, M. do Witto promised a wealthy Hebrew deputation at Now York that he would do bis utmost to give the Jews full constitutional rights.

BLACKMAIL AT BAKU. RANSOM TO BANDITS. By, telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright Received 12.7 a.m., Sept 15. St. Petersburg, Bept. 14. Oil producers a* Baku iufarm the Governmeat that owiDg to the inability of the police to give protection, they comtuenoed paying notorious bandits an enormous monthly ransorn for safoty or life and proporty on tho oil fields, BlaoK* mail and robbery began alter appropriation from the inhabitants of the ownership of tho petroliferous landu whioh reverted to the State. : ' 1

DELEGATES DISPERSED WITH BAYONETS.

By telegraph, Prese Aea'n,, Copyright j Received 11.65 p.m., Sept. 14. ' . '.St! Petersburg, Sept. 14. Eight hundred delegates from all towns in Finland met at Helsingfors to disouss the political situation. The polioe order to disperse was disregarded. Troops were summoned and disperseu the delegates with fixed bayonets. The polioe at Warsaw arrested Kowalezyk. Government astronomer, and his family, owing to the disoovery at his residence of a store of revolvers, ammunition, and daggers.