REBELLION IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1598, 10 November 1905, Page 2

REBELLION IN RUSSIA.

MASSACRE OF JEWS.

FEARFUL SCENE -

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St. Petersburg, Nov. 7. An official communique attributes tbo disturbances to mutuul embittermont ol sootioos of tho population, which is duo to the munifoslo of tho 30th. lho only meaDß of combatting tho; disorders would bo found in all clossos bocoming permeated wi h tho conviotion that tho roforms promised would bo inflexibly realised. Tho Government rolios on tho loyal, peaooablo and thoughtful majority for tho development of Russia on the lines of civil liborty, tho country’s territorial integrity and particularly upon tbo pross for union between tho intellectual fcrcos of tbo nation. Xho banks and shops at Odessa hove reopened, Merchants have petitioned the Government to proolaim a eix months’ moratorium. Operatives ot Riga havo resumed work, but tho railway strike continutes, also tho looting of Jews’ shops. Tho troops at Tiflis attacked 150 railway wreckers, killing eight. The Batoum-Kotais lino has been greatly damaged. Several bridges were destroyed. The reintroduction of legal concessions in Finland and tbo grant of universal suffrage ha 3 been hailed with delight. Ordor has been maintained. Despite tho efforts of the ultra Socialists the strike has ended, Traffic is being resumed. Bombs were thrown into the commaudor’s apartments at Novgiovsk fortress, and killed' tbe commander aDd wounded his wife and children, <

The authorities in many villages are quelling the peasants’ anti-Semitic riots. Tiflis on Saturday was a pandemonium of butchery. , Oossaoks were ferocious, aud shoe fleeing women and children-in-arms. They killed school children like sparrows, and plundered hotels, expelling European residents. . A civil war is raging in Caucasia, wbioh is practically isolated. Railways, bridges, and telegraphs have been destroyed. In many plaoes Provooalists are secretly organising for a massacre of the Jews. At Warsaw the Jews were terribly executed. Great detachments of troops and artillery are encamped in the squares. There are terrible disorders in Bessarabia, unemployed joining the hooligans in plunder and murder indiscriminately. ’ Famine is general, and hundreds are dying of starvation. >■ ■■ Ten thousand of “ The Black Gang ” at Mosoow attacked the Engineers’ College.' The students fired, killing' 15 and wounding many. The troops rescued the students. General Kaulbars has appealed to tbe Odessa editors to refrain from illustrating describing the massacres, otherwise he will not guarantoa.there will be no fresh outburst. Tbo editors, interpreting this as a threat, complied. The rabbis, at tbe instigation of. the polioe, are collecting signatures thanking General Kaulbars for defending the Jews. The latter are indignant, and refuse to

sign, The rabbi implies that fresh massacres will be perpetrated unless they sign. Butobers at Mosoow ars pledged to kill all students, believing they are the chief obstacles to order.

Washington, Nov. 7. President Roosevelt has decided that no action is possible at present which would be of any benefit to Jews in Russia. Count de Witte, telegraphing to Mr Jacob Schiff, New York, states the Russian Government is horrified at the massacres and add 3: “ You know I do not sympathise with such savage outbreaks. All 1 can do to stop them, has been done, but tbe country is bo unsettled that local authorities are often powerless.”

London, Nov. 7. The Chief Rabbi, Dr. Hermann Alder, has received telegrams from Russia stating that many Jewish communities have been entirely destroyed. The position is awful. English Jews are considering measures of relief.

AWFUL SCENES.

PILLAGE AND MURDER.

By telegraph, Press Ana’n, Copyright Received 11.86 p.m., Nov. 8. ' Odessa, Nov. 8Ono hundred Jews were interred at night, unaoffioed and unidentified. Two hundred and fifty were unrecognisable,being battered with hammers. Great oarnage occurred in villages in the vicinity. Hundreds were killed.

Thousands are wounded and roofless,

Fortyssix railway men defended Jewish bouses in Odessa. Suburban polioe and infantry shot every defender, then pillaged the houses and massacred the inmates.

A gang, headed by polioemeD, entered Rabbi Sloush’s residence and demanded the key of the safe. Rabbi Sloush replied that the money belonged to the widows and orphans. Though tortured he still refused to give up the key. The gang were about to behead him when his wife surrendered tbo key. Twenty-two thousand roubles wore token. Rabbi Sloush sud his wife were then killed.

INSTIGATION OF TARTARS.

B* telegraph,. Presa A*s’n,_ Copyright Received 5.18 p.m,, Nov. 9. Bt. Petersburg, Nov 8.

It is persistently rumored at Tiff's that tho Government is instigating Tartais in attacks on Armenians.

Count de Witte, discussing the situation with leading Zemstovs, .admits that the Duma is not a speoiffo for national ills, yet there is nothing else at present available. He pledged his word of honor to support the proposal for a constituent Assembly if members of the Duma require it. London, Nov. 8.

The Times’ St. Petersburg correspondent says that the Engineers’ Union accused the Government of inciting the dark elemeDts of society agaioss students, workmen and Jews. - They demand that General Trepoff be handed over to a popular tribunal for punishment.

An official communications at St. Petersburg, while claiming that there are indications of general appeasement, admits that some lpcal administrative officials, who are enemies of tbo new system, are fomenting disorders to prevent the realisation of reforms.

25,000 JEWS KILLED OR WOUNDED.

ONE THOUSAND WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED.

By telegraph* Presa Asa’n, Copyright Reoeivcd 8.40 a.m , Nov. 9. St. Peteraburg, Nov. 8. With the support of the National Guard, workmen at Helsingfors are adminstering affairs. The Government on Thursday, are preparing, in response to appeals from other towns, and subject to the Czar’s j sanction, to eleet on Saturday an interim government. The troops have quitted and enoamped outside the town. I Fifty thousand and three guns have been landed from warships. The gUDs at Eveiborg fortress are trained on Helsing- ! fors. Prince Obolensky, the Governor, I took refuge aboard the 81ava. Reoeived 8.54 a.m., Nov. 9. ! A djotor at Kioff writes that 25,000 J Jews there were killed or wounded. One I thousand women aud children were out-1 raged and strangled- Ho declares that the I Government- and Grand Duke organised I the massacre.

Received 10.15 p.m., Nov. 9. The railway union at St, Petersburg advises railway men to store arms until the momeot of decisive encounter corner, and then to riEO as one man and win a complete victory. There is a se-iou3 Agrarian movement in several Volga provinces. Received 12.5 a,m., Nov. 10. Beports from Odessa state that the j police are strenuously organising a fresh I massacre of Jews. The Barristers’ Uoiu

Split SV. trust, beggod j oW i y b survivors are as:® 1 *" p,MUca “ do Bo ‘ 0 Received 1016 P-™-> Nov ' ol Odessa, Nov. 9. Tboro was seventeen honr^ff gh tmg^ Nesakoerahi, near killed 105 out riotors, chiefly with bombs, kilt had of 120 Cossacks, who _ P, r ° v ‘°l ‘L burned villages in tho neig o £ an d The mob attacked Jews at iomsa « 600 perished. a Warsaw Tho governors of Lodz anu havo prohibited political meetings. The Grand Duke Vlad amir’s resignation of the oommandersbip of tbe 1 military district of St. Petersourg accepted, likewise that of Prince KhilhOU.