Russian Revolt.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3542, 4 July 1905, Page 2

Russian Revolt.

MOKE HORRORS. VARIOUS reports—what .IS THE TR t 1! H ? St. Petersburg *• An Officer at Kirsk station,- ia «! n * sequence of the impertinence « a soldier, Cut him down with hw s* A mob collected and poured peteoM® on the office r’s railway carriage. officer replied with revolver saw* and was then burned to death, Cossacks, infantry and machine guns guard the JLibau rioters, with the exception of 200 who fled to the forest* The Czar provides the funds for General Trepoffs spheme to subdivide Russia into carefully organised districts with an enormously increased force. * The panic at Odessa is unabated. The British Consul has chartered a. vessel to take the British subjects away from the town. The conflagration at the town con* tinned until Friday evening. Coast defence batteries have b<MS stationed ia the Odessa streets dominating the harbour. The official accounts of events at Odessa are contradictory. Some state the Kaiaz Potemkin surrendered and the crew was transferred to other vessels, and that the revolutionary -’nittee at Odessa were arrested on COlfc.b °r»£W -,.,-ratives stale the Kniaz and Gewgi are still in the hand! df the ■ mutineers, and are threatened fo bonibard the city unless by me “* of Th g sailed for Sebastopol.