TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1907, 17 October 1906, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT St. Petersburg, 001. 16. A gang at Piatfgirik onterod his realdenoo and killed tho manager of Nobel s works, and dtoamped with 300 roubles. Tho Russian Government baa seorotly circularised tho provincial Governors .directing in tho Cza.’s nome the prompt execution of prisoners condemned by the travelling courts-martial, also intimating that tho Czar rrjects nil petitions of meroy. 3 ii 's E'i j

KRONSTADT EXECUTIONS

PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 9 35 p.m , Oet. 16. Bt. Petersburg, October 10,

Farther details of the execution of nineteen naval mutineers at Kronstadt, cabled on tbe sth, are available. Seventeen of tho condemned men aooepted priests’ ministrations, while two refused. The officer reading aloud the sentences was stopped through the prisoners singing a revolutionary funeral hymn. The prisoners wore tied to a rope stretched between two posts. Their request not to havo aacka placed over their heads wa3 refused. The firing party was drawn from the Light lafaotry, who, like the prisoners, were Bhivoring with odd. They muddled tbe firing of a volley. They killed only three outright. The killed and wounded dragged down the others into a confused mass, from which arose oursiDga at the executioners for their clumsiness. The filing then degenerated into a bntohery. The corpses were crammed into sacks and dropped into the see.