CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3499, 21 March 1905, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

Unrest in Russia. ■AGRARIAN TROUBLES. HORRIBLE ITORIES OF CRUELTY. St. Peter kbtirg, March jB-. Bands of peasants, numbering from five hundred to a thousand each, are traversing the villages in the Piotrokov district, Poland, inciting the labourer.to join an agitation to secure possession of thqhndE Ffesh strikes have occurred at War saw and Lodz, owing to rumours of mobilisation. The Governors of southern provinces are protesting that further withdrawals of troops will endanger the maintenance of order. Pesants in Southern Russia stole a Roumanian mail-bag containing £41,000. During the recent strikes at Lodz, tin Poland, a number of women and •children collected in a yard. M. Poznauski, the factory manager, locking the factory, blew a whistle, and drunken Cossacks arriving, trampled on the women and children, fourteen of whom were killed. Some were driven into the water, and six were drowned. Seventeen workmen at the Catherine vrodcs at Sosnowice, 193 miles southwest of Warsaw, were killed or wounded by military volleys, then plundered, and thrown, some being still alive, into furnaces. Their charred remains were afterward# found.