TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1807, 13 July 1906, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

By telegraph, Plain Aw’d, CoSyrlgh* St. Petersburg, July 10. Ton Armed men at Naon stopped a carriage containing the cashier of tho Vistula railway, in tho centre of Warsaw, while proceeding to the bank, escorted by two soldiers. The men killed the soldiers and seized three bags containing ton thousand roubles, and escaped. The cashier concealed fifty thousand roubles. Russian newspapers describe the Rozhdestvensky court-martial as a farce. The subordinate officers who risked dishonor to save their chief were made the scapegoats for the Tsushima disaster.

THOUSANDS OF JEWB FLEE FROM WARSAW.

By telegraph. Press Aas’n, Copyright Receivod 9.85 p.m., July 12. St. Petersburg, July 12. Fearing immediate massacre thousands of Jews fled from Warsaw to Lodz. Soldiers and polioe are terribly inoensed at the numerous murders of comrades.

DARING ROBBERY.

CASHIER SHOT AND 25,000 ROUBLES STOLEN.

By telegraph, Press Aas’n, Copyright

Reoeived 9.48 p.m., July 12. St. Petersburg, July 12. Armed men shot the Admiralty cashier on the steps of the Paymaster’s Department at St. Petersburg, robbiDg him of 25,000 roubles, and eeoaped.

London, July 12,

Reuter’s correspondent at S». Petersburg Btates that a committee of the Council of the Empire by 8 to 7 approved of the Bill to abolish the death penalty.