TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1646, 12 January 1906, Page 2

TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

By telegraph, Press ABs’n, Copyright St. Potorsburg, Jan. 10. Taitars burnt half of Blizabotpol.

Ten thoutaud Tartars, bent on massacre and pillage, attacked Tiflip. Tho defen. do s, Armenians, assisted by Georgians and Russians, all well armed, fought vigorously by moans of barricades and bombs, repeding tho assailants. Eighteen revolutionaries have been executed at Moscow, including Schmidt, tho German owner of a largo furniture factory. A conflict between Co sacks and soldiors occurred at Irkutsk. Hundreds v,'ere killed and thrown into the lake. The stores at Tsitsihar were looted, and the people fled to Mongolia. Troops besieged Ostrowico ironworks at Radon?, and killed aud wounded many revolutionaries. Tho rest fled. The crow of tho Kniaz Gorchakoff, undergoing repairs at Elsinore, mutinied.

RESTRICTIVE MEASURES. By telegraph. Press A»s’n, Copyright Received 11.24 p.m., Jan. 11. St. Petersburg, Jan. 10. Tfco Times’ St. Petersburg correspondent reports that the Government privately informed tho labor chiefs that if the 22nd ink. passed quietly repressive measures would be suspended on the fo’lowing day. Count de Witte informed a deputation that the Duma would probably assemble on April 24tb. He stated that the Counoil of the Empire would be oomposed of 176 members, half to be elective, 34 (o be elected by the Zemstovs, 18 by nobles, 12 each by manufacturers and morchante, and six each by the Caucasus and Poland, Count do Witte stated that Durnovo was responsible for the existing repressive measures. “lam,” he said “ personally opposed to repression, and am compelled to resort thereto as the result of trusting my countrymen.”