TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1852, 5 September 1906, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

TERROR-STRICKEN CZAR.

PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT St. Petersburg, Sept. 3, At a funeral of a workman killed by Cossacks near Warsaw, the mourners displayed the red flag, whereupon tho Cossacks interfered, killing six and wounding 22. There are persistent reports that the Czar has dismissed General Trepoff, who is seriously ifi, placing him on the retired list, thanking him for his fidelity, and ordering him a complete rest. The step is considered to be mOBt significant at the present juncture. Unknown misoreants at Warsaw, armed with revolvers, seriously wounded General Tiemenkofi, who suppressed tho disturbances at Riga. Twenty-two death sentences, imposed on Svebony rioters recently, have been oommuted to servitude for life. New York, September 3.

The New York Wor.d’s Ss. Petersburg correspondent states that the Czar habitualiy wears a coat of mail, and takes exeroise in a meadow surrounded by soldiers. Anyone approeohing without leave is shot, oven while bearing the Czar a message.

Reoeived 10.19 p.m., Sept. 4. St. Petersburg, Sept. 4

Fourteen offioers and one medioal man have been arrested at Odessa for conducting seoret meeting of soldiers in connection with the military terrorist organisation, aiming at the extermination of all authorities. Extensive correspondence with other revolutionary bodies was seized.

SHOOTING OF CZARINA’S MAID 1

PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 12.11 a,m., Sept. 5. New York, Sept. 4. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the New York World states that one of the Czarina’s maids was shot by soldiers while approaching the Czar with a message. London, Sept. 4. Reuter’s St. Petersburg correspondent wires that all revolutionary organisations have been combined into a solid antiGovernment body.