TROUBLE IN RUSSIA

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1678, 20 February 1906, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA

By telegraphy Press Ass.’ n. Copyright

Bt. Petersburg, Feb. 18. General Linioviteh baa resigned command of tho troops in the East, owing to I failure to quiet disturbmces. General Grodchoff has succeeded him. Socialists in Poland pillaged five Government a'cohol stores. They looted one store of a thousand roubles. Eighty conspirators have been arrested | at Kief for Ihe oxtortion of money for revolutionary purposes by means of threatening letters signed “ Anarchist. A truck was unloading at St. Petersburg station, when a case exploded, killing four persons. Tbe ca-, which caught fire, was found to contain fifty-four similar oases. Tbe driver and brakßinan of a shunting engine prevented a disaster by removing it to a siding, whero it exploded without doing any serious damage.

MURDER AND ROBBERY.

GENERALS RECALLED FROM MANCHURIA.

By telegraph, Pres® Ans’n, Copyright

Reoeived 9.14 p.m., Feb. 19. St. Petersburg, Feb. 19, Owing to tbe reluctance of wealthy Liberals to continue to contribute after the failure of the Moscow uprising, revolutionaries are systematically robbing the banks, treasury offioes, and brandy shops. | A band killed four officials of the trea- 1 sury at Usman, and decamped with £22,000. m , Another band robbed the Union Works at Riga of £llOO. Owing to tho prisons all being full, Government are compelling all employets to dismiss undesirables, who are then expelled from St. Petersburg. Generals Kuropatkia and Bstianou have been recalled from Manchuria. Lieut. Sohmidt refused food for six days beoause his relatives were not allowed to visit him. Counsel in ends to refuse to defend him, on the ground that he is insane. A petition has been piesented to Count de Witte to stop the trial.