TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1860, 14 September 1906, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT St. Petersburg, S=pt. 12. Refugees from Seidloe declare that the disorders were the result of a deliberately planned pogrom, the maeßaores bi ginning in different parts when a red light was displayed in the city tower. Soldiers told Polos who were fleeing not to fear, as they were only ordered to kill Tews.

Artillery opened an indiscriminate bombardment on Jewish houses, preventing Jews escaping to the forests. Panic is spreading to other towns, where it is feared the organisation known as the Blaok Hundred, under threats of fire and massaore, will try to oompel the surrender of all revolutionaries.

The Vioe-Governor of Beidlce was taken ill on Wednesday. Colonel Siohanoveky, oommander of the oity’a military police, was appointed to replace him. Rumor was ourrent on Friday that a massaore was impending, but polioemen did not sucoeed in blackmailing shopkeepers on the promise of protection. The refusal of money led to the massecre.

Many wounded in the streets were despatched with revolvers. Even volleys were fired into the Jewish hospital, containing wounded. Forty-two alleged revolutionaries will be oourt-martialled.

A lieutenant and a young lady walking in the street at Warsaw wero Bhot dead. The assassins eeoaped. A bomb was thrown at a party of eight watchmen and police at Warsaw. Two were killed and six wounded. Thirty armed anarchists appeared at a wedding at a private house at Odessa and demanded money. Twenty-four were arrested, The girl Konoplaniakoff has been executed in Sohlneeselburg prison. St. Petersburg, Sept. 13. Order has been restored at Siodlce. Thousands have left the city. Colonel Jokovieff, Chief of Warsaw PrisoD, was shot dead while ciding in a oab. The assassin esoaped.