TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1853, 6 September 1906, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

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London, Sept. 4 Mr Keir Flardio, speaking at Blackbunij sympathised with the Russian bombthrowers, and hoped “my comrades Will make no half job of the business. Tho day of Kings, Czars, and Emperors is past.”

Paris, Sept. 4. Maxim Gorkie lias urgently appealed to -v French workmen to supply shot and shell ™ to assist the general rising'in Russia. St. Petersburg, Bept. 4 Terrorists unsuccessfully attempted shoot Stupin, the popular Governer-Gon 0 ’ ral of Nicolaieff.

WREAKING VENGEANCE,

TRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 10.42 p.m., Sept. 5. St. Petersburg, Sept, 5,

A policeman was shot at Wenden, Lavonia. A punitive column demanded the surrender of the murderer. Tho people replied that they did not know him, and that he was a stranger. Forty-nine people wore arrested despite protestations of innocence. The whole male population wore summoned to the scene of the murder, The Commander of the column selected two old men and a youth. All three were shot. He announced that in the event of another political murder nine people would be shot, and in the event of a third twenty-seven would be shot.^J

LEADERS PUNISHED.

PRESS ASSOCIATION - COPYRIGHT Received 10.56 p.m., Sept. 5. | St. Petersburg, Sept. 5. The court-martial et Rima sentenced 24 revolutionary leaders to hard labor t ranging from two to fifteen years.