Russia.

Manawatu Herald, 28 February 1905, Page 2

Russia.

WHOLESALE MASSACRE,

It is unofficially reported that there are 40,000 strikers at Batoum. Tartars were let loose on the Armeniens at Baku. The police did not interfere, pleading the absence of instructions. After the conflict three hundred corpses were littered about the streets. It is reported-the Black Sea squadron has bombarded the town of Poll owing to the riots.

TO BE COURT-MARTIALLED. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 24. The four officers commanding the Russian guards who fired the salute at the Blessing of the Neva waters, when the Czar narrowly escaped, have been ordered to be court-martialled. The strike of engineers has compelled the reopened iactories at Warsaw to close again.

CONCESSIONS TO STRIKERS. LONDON, Feb 26. Advices have been received which indicate that thirty persons who were arrested in connection with the Grand links Sergius’ assassination have been examined without the discovery of the existence of a- conspiracy. The directors of the Warsaw-Vienna railway offer the strikers an increase in toog totalling £65,000, ten hours per day and other concessions. Work is being resumed. Details to hand show that the Kullitch band killed tour soldiers and then disappeared. Turks sacked the villages, burned the church and 43 houses, and killed unarmed villagers, outraging the homes. Spotted typhus has broken out 111 Warsaw. The soldiers employed at the gasworks are unable to produce sufficient gas and the city is tnreatened with darkness.