Disturbed Russia.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3540, 29 June 1905, Page 2

Disturbed Russia.

MORE SERIOUS RIOTS,

St. Petersburg, June 25. Martial law has been proclaimed at Lodz. Two hundred and twenty-four were killed at Lodz. The Cossacks are robbing the dead of their jewels and money. y*, The hospitals are crowded and the wounded are lying on the floors. Shooting arid 'rioting continues, f On Saturday the rioters were attempting to fire Government offices. A bomb was thrown into the Cossack barracks and it killed 14 and wounded

16. . , The committee of ministers is of the opinion, that though an ffquitabl® solution should place the Jews? on st legal equality with the rest of tna Russians, it is impossible owing to the certainty of outbursts of popular ill* will. It was decided to leave the problem to the representative assembly if the Czar approved. Six revolver shots were fired at M. Smilsky, M. Bulyguine’s secretary, who was mistaken for M. Bulyguine. The attempt took place near tha spot where M. Phleve, was assasinated. The criminals escaped. Smilsky, who escaped injury, occupied M. Bulygui ic’s carriage.

St. Petersburg, June 27

: A Cossack patrol at Lodz were at* tacked from behind a cemetery wall. They entered the cemetery and killed five men, four women and threa children.

Officers of the Murow Dragoon Regiment informed the commander of the troops, on behalf of the men, that they declined to shoot on defenceless people. The regiment was therefore transferred to Wloulansk. General Maksimovitch has ordered an inquiry. Twenty thousand jews quitted Lodz yesterday. No less than 343 Tews and 218 Christians were buried after the fight at Lodz, Barricades erected at Warsaw were stormed with many casualties. Thera were 200 arrests.

Twelve hundred were killed and 3000 wounded in’ten davs fighting in the Caucasus. The garrison of Taurida sent reinforcements. A bomb was thrown into the carriage of M. Pavbff, Chief of Police at Czenstochowa, who, with seven others was seriously wounded. ■' The Russian social democrats ,<de« dare their mission is tc? crush baneful tutelage the bureaucrats exercise over the Czar, ey -ii dariqg to minimise his promise to Zemstvdisls. London, June 27.

It is semi-officially announced at St, Petersburg that the Government upholds the necessity for the establishment of a consnlative representative assembly. Several newspapers, however, have erroseously drawn from the Czar’s speech far-reaching con* elusions, suggesting a complete re* organisation ol the constitution. London, June 28.

The Czar has entrusted the execution of his decree for a Representative Assembly to General Trepoff, Go* vernor-General of St. Petersburg.