TROUBLE IN RUSSIA
THE BIG ROBBERY,
By tfilograph fl Presa lA'sa’n* Copyright St. Petersburg, March 21. The Russian Government Commission estimates that tho agrarian disturbances in twenty previnoee, excluding Courland and Livonie, caused damage to landlords to tho extent of five million two hundred thousand pounds sterling. Eight hundred houses belonging to German landlords in tbo Baltic provinces were burned.
London, March 21,
The Daily Express’ Moscow correspondent reports that after overpowering the bank guards, the gang placed a large infernal machine in the middle of the building, threatening to blow it up if the slightest attempt was made to raise the alarm. They locked the clerks in inner rooms while they ransacked the desks and Bales, the whole opesation only tskiDg fifteen minutes.
A SCHOOL STRIKE,
ANGRY SAILORS,
By telegraph. Press Ass'n, Copyright ■'£. Received 11.53 p.m., March 22. St. Petersburg, March 22. The high schools at Odessa have Btrack. As a protest against Schmidt’s execution two thousand sailors at Sevastopol hoisted the black flag, and have taken to
mourning. Admiral Chukhain ordered the bombardment of the vessels, but countermanded the order on receipt of instructions from St Petersburg.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1706, 23 March 1906, Page 2
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