TROUBLE IN RUSSIA

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1809, 16 July 1906, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA

By telegraph, Pres a Afts’n, Copyright Bt. Petersburg. July 13 Peasants destroyed Prince Orlefl’s s-ud of horses by fire.

BIELO3TOK MABSACRE.

DETAILS BY MAIL.

San Frsnoisoo, Jana 21. A despatch dated St. Petersburg, Jana 18th, Etaied that the embargo on news from Bielostok was lifted to day, and tho Associated Prose staff correspondent was for the first time allowed to telegraph dirootly from the sacked city a picture of the ruin and desolation left in the wake of tho mob, The story told by the correspondent is a dreadful one, but there arc indications that he has been prevented by too censorship from relating further details about the corpses, tho utter bestiality of the mob and inability of the troops to cope with the excesses duriog the first days of the rioting. It is evident from the doepatohes that the excesses assumed the oharactor of a three cornered fight between the military, tho mob and armed members of the Jewish band, who, instead of submitting passively to slaughter, as their unarmed co-religionists have done heretofore, oarried the war into tho enemy’s camp, and fought bravely, though without inflicting appreciable loss on the troops, among whom no serious casualties have been reported. Horrible details have been sent out by the correspondent of the Bourse Gazette, who managed to send his story by a messenger Sunday afternoon. The correspondent, who accompanied Stohepkin aireofcly to the hospital, escorted by a corporal's guard, says he was utterly unnerved by the sights ho witnessed there " Merely saying that the corpses wore mutilated,” the correspondent writes " fails to desoribe the awful scenes. The faoes of tho dead have lost all human semblance, and the oorpses simply are crushed masses of fleah and blood. It is impossible to oonceive of such bestiality The oorpso of Teacher Apstein lay in the grass with the hands tied. In tho faoe and eyes had been hammered three inch nails. Rioters entered his home, and after fearful outrages killed him thus, and then murdered tho rest of his family of seven. When tho oorpso arrived at the hospital it was also marked with bayonet thrust*. “ Beside tho body of Apstein lay tbo corpse of a child of 10 years, whoHa lng had been chopped off with an axe. According to witness, soldiers came and killed tho wife, son, and daughters, and plundered tho house. “ I am told that soldiers entered the apartments of the Lapidus Brothers, which wore crowded with poopie who had fled from the streets forßafeiy, and ordered the Christians to separate themselves from the Jews. A Christian student named Dikar protested, and was killed on the spot. Then all of the Jews were ehot. 11 Some of the corpses were marked with fire. Those had been brought from a burned tannery, and showed ballots and bayonet marks. In one corner of tbo yard was a demented Jewess, trying to cover tho body of her husband, but her efforts were in vain, and tbo blood -imp y oozed from beneath the inadequate cover i"g.

F'om <bo wounded in the hospital the oonespondent hoard many pmab o stories ail o{ the same general tonor. H>-re ia'lhe oocount cf a badly wounded merchant named

"‘ I live in the suburbs, LeorniDg of 7. »bo pogrom, I tried to reach tho towu o through tho fields, but was intercepted by - roughs. My brothor was killod, my arm t and leg brokeD, my skull fraotured, and I wai stabbed twice in the side. I fainted r from 1 033 of blood and rovived to find a 3 soldier standing over me, who asked: . “ What! Are you still olive ? Shall j , bayonet you 2” I bogged him to spare my life. The rough- ogain came, but eporod me, saying, “He will die ; let him fiuff -r longer ’ ” Tho correspondent aeola-os that not only the soldiers but their < ffiears also I participated, and that ho himself was a Witness as late as Saturday to tho shooting down of a Jo wish girl from tho window of a hotel by Lieut. Miller, of the j Vladimir Begimont. The Governor of the province of Grodno, who happened to c ha pwgfojj 9( I tie penaeot, ordered an 1 juvesligfMoh’ , E