CABLE NEWS.
Unhappy Russia. FIXED BATONETS IN USE. EXTREME MEASURES TAKEN, BLACKMAIL AND ROBBERY. St. Pktkksp.i'RG, Sept. 14. Eight hundred delegates from all the principal towns m I 1 inland at Helsingfors to discuss the political situation. The police tried to disperse the gathering, Imt wore disregarded. Troops wen; ihmi summoned, anddispersed the delegates with fixed bayonets. Tho. shipment ol arms to t Indiana has, it is believed, been proceeding for several months. The Armenians are making a desperate defence against tho Tartai attacks. One man defended his house at Baku for three hours, his wife and son loading his guns. Ho killed fortyseven and wounded many beloie he was over-powered. The policeat Warsaw arrested M. Kawalezk, Government astronomer, and family, owing to tho. discovery at their residence o! a store of revolvers, ammunition, and daggers.
Tin; oil producers at Baku have informed the Government tnat owing to the inability of the police to afford protection, the owners have commenced paying notorious bandits an enormous monthly ransom for the safety of life and property on the oilfields.
Blackmail and robbery began after appropriation Imm tho inhabitants of the ownership of petroliferous lands, which reverted to the State.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3573, 16 September 1905, Page 3
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197CABLE NEWS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3573, 16 September 1905, Page 3
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