TROUBLE IN RUSSIA

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1924, 6 November 1906, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA

A TERRIBLE RECORD.

PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT London, Nov. 4. The St. Petersburg newspapers state that the first year under the Constitution granted in October, 1905, has resulted as follows: — Executions ... 1513 Newspaper suspensions ... 323 Editors prosecuted ... 647 Bomb outrages 242 Robberies from public institutions ... ... 940

Gersekuni the founder of the organisation which killed MM. Sipiaguine (Minister of the Interior), Bogcliepoff, and Plehve (Minister of the Interior), has escaped from a convict prison in Siberia concealed in a water butt.

Two girls were shot at Kronstadt because a hangman was not procurable. The Times’ St. Petersburg correspondent says the main object of the summary court-martial, the extirpation of terrorism, has not been achieved, though 300 persons have been executed in two months,

THE RECENT ROBBERY. Received 10,16 p.m., Nov. 5. St. Petersburg, Nov. 5, Fifteen more arrests have been made in connection with the robbery from the St. Petersburg Treasury van. The leaders of the gang were connected with the recent outrage in Stolypin’s houseDespite the protest of the rector and Council of the St. Petersburg University the Prefect of Police refused to permit students to attend University lectures and expelled them from the capital.