Unhappy Russia.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3617, 27 February 1906, Page 3

Unhappy Russia.

St. Petersburg, Feb. 23. The suppression of the revolt in the Baltic provinces continues with great severity. Within two days thirty-four have been shot. Hasenpot, a schoolmaster, was hanged and eight others executed at Grobin. A MONTH’S RECORD. St. Petersburg, Feb. 25. During the 'month ending

February 7th, seventy-eight Russian newspapers have been suspended and fifty-eight editors arrested. A state of siege was proclaimed in sixty-two places, and a minor state of siege in thirtyfour places. Ten thousand arrests were made and fourteen hundred people summarily executed. Twenty workmen’s cheap restaurants in St. Petersburg have been closed. THE FINANCIAL POSITION. ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY AT VILNA. - SERIOUS FAMINE. St. Petersbusg, Feb. 23. Count Witte’s organ, while declaring that the financial situation inspires no misgivings, admits that it is indispensable to raise loans to the amount of seventy millions sterling to prevent disorganisation of the gold currency. Revolutionaries at Vilna, in Western Russia, robbed the pawnbrokingl institute |of three million roubles’ (about ,£317,060) worth of jewellery. The famine in Russia exceeds in area and intensity the famine in 1891.

THE DEATH PENALTY. St Petersburg, Feb. 23, At Moscow the “party of tkirtieth October,’’ the date on which the Czar issued his manifesto promising liberty—advocates cessation of the death penalty without trial, and the immediate convocation of the Duma as the surest means of pacifying- the country. SUPPRESSION OF THE REVOLT. FEARFUL SEVERITY. St. Petersburg, Feb. 23. The suppression of the revolt in the Baltic provinces continues with great severity. Within two days thirty-four persons were shot at Hasenpoth, in the Libau district. A schoolmaster was hanged, and eight others executed at Grobin.