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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3619, 13 January 1906, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

Unhappy Russia

MORE MARTIAL LAW. St. Petersburg, Jan. to. The Governor of the Caucasus telegraphs that the revolutionists seined the railway and organised a general strike. Martial law has been proclaimed, Tartars and Armenians are fighting at Baku, Erivan and Doghestan. Revolutionists are all powerful at Courtland. They annexed Crown lands, forests, instituted a Draconian system of punishment of offenders against property, and celebrate marriages. Socialists preach from the church pulpits. A CITY BESIEGED. The Tarters burnt half the city of Elizabethpol. Ten thousand Tarters, bent' on massacre and pillage, attacked Tiflis, The defenders are Armenians, assisted by Georgians and Russians. They are all well armed, and fought vigorously by means of barricades and bombs, expelling their assailants. EXECUTION, ■ RIOTS AND MUTINIES. Eighteeen revolutionaries have been executed at Moscow, including Schmidt, the German owner of a large furniture factory. A conflict between Cossacks and soldiers occurred at Irkutsk and hundreds were killed and thrown Into the lake. The stores at Tsithar were looted and the people fled into Mongolia. The troops besieged the Ostrowice ironworks at Radom and killed and wounded many revolutionaries. The rest fled. : The crew of the Kniaz Gorchakoff, now undergowing repairs at Elsimore, have mutinied.