TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1663, 1 February 1906, Page 2

TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

By telegraph, Presa A'as’n, Copyrigh

St. Petersburg, Jan. 30.

The Second Ural Cossack Regiment, stationed at Katerinodar, while professing fidelity to the Czar, deolares that it is impossible to serve as instruments of repression after tbe manifesto of October 30, and therefore returns home.

Punitive columns in the Baltic provinces are exeouting insurgents wholesale. The Czar has ordered a committee to inquire into mismanagement of the Black Bea fleet. M. Durnovo has forbidden the Mohammedan Congress at Moscow, though scores of delegates travelled thousands of miles, to disoues political, social, and religious requirements.

STERN MEASURES.

A TOWN IN FLAMES.

COSSACKS AND HOOLIGANS LOOTING.

By; telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright

Received 11.21 p m., Jan. 31. St. Petersburg, Jan. 31. Offing to the murder of two policemen at Kielse the general body left. The Government demands delivery within three days of arms and explosives held without license, otherwise those found in possession will be shot without trial. In the esse of minors carrying arms the parents or guardians will be shot. Gomel is in flames. Ooesaokß and hooligans are looting the toff'n. ' ~ ‘

RIOTS AT RIGA.

By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright Received 12.30 a.m,, Feb. 1. St. Petersburg, JaD. 31. The crowd at Riga stormed the po'ice station, killed three policemen, aDd released seventeen political prisoners.