TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1866, 21 September 1906, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT ,St. Petersburg, Sspt. 19. Eye witnesses allege that the incompetence of the executioner, who was a pardoned Bveaborg mutineer, prolonged the girl Konopliannikov’s sufferings to half an hoar.

An Odessa official has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, though it was proved be personally killed two Jewish families comprising eleven. The Czar’s speech read at the olosiog of the Finnish Diet promised early relief for needy agricultural and industrialistsA priest of Staphanolika Samara, states that a horrible famine has demolished the peasants wbr, while destroying enormous quantities of grain for vengeance, exist on a meal a day, often of sour milk given them as charity. Numbers are deserting theic obildren.

There is intense alarm amongst the Jews at Odessa at oertain aoiions on the part of the soldiers and police in connection with Jewish shops, whioh ate interpreted to mean that a massacre is in preparation.

THREATENED MASSACRES.

Received 9,18 p m., Sept. 20. PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT St. Petersburg, Sept. 20. The Consuls of Odessa discussed the threatened outbreak and requested the authorities to take steps to protect the Consulate. The request was granted the protection reassuring them. The union of Russian people wired to Odessa: “ Have seen M. Stolypin, who declares Government will not permit further massacres.”