CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3543, 6 July 1905, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

fhti Russian Crisis.

ODESSA HORRORS.

ST. PETERSBURG IN STATE OF

UNREST.

St. July 4V Odessa is now quitft. Work has been resumed at some factories. The Grand Duke Alexis and General Ignatieff are proceeding 1® Odessa, armed with extraordinary powers. There are forty-three thousand troops at Odessa, It is estimated that the damage dofc# to property at Odessa during the pre* sent disturbances will cost £ sterling to make good. The inhabitants are in a frenzy af the violence exhibited by the military. It has been ascertained that eigh* teen hundred people were killed and three thousand wounded on Wedne»* day, the majority succumbing to tb# machine guns which were used against the crowd.

One hundred and twenty men and Women drank stolen spirits and fell asleep on a coal heap, where they lay till machine guns riddled them to death. '

instance is recorded where t Wl y hundred fugitives were slaughtered instead 1 of being arrested. The ponC 4 * discovered near Czarsko* Selo, the Imperial, Palace, eighteen miles south ot £t, Petersburg, in a house tenanted by i Government ’em. ployee and a student, eight completed bombs and twenty-hyo unfinished ✓bombs, as well as fifty panisters of explosives. The occupants of the house Wt-T® ar« rested. There is a general strike at St* Petersburg. Mobilisation in the city has beeO suspended. The promulgation of M. Body* gwine’s scheme has been postponed for a fortnight. \ Increased wages have pacified the Ki'pnstadt strikers.