Unhappy Russia.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3620, 6 March 1906, Page 3

Unhappy Russia.

A determined robber

St. Petersburg, March 2

Two more of the Helsingfors bank robbers were arrested at Tanimerfors. While being searched blie drew a revolver and killed Aree policemen, and wounded two onlookers and police officials. The robber then barricaded himself in an adjacent house and harangued the people from a window, appealing far help on the ground that he y Was a Social Democrat. Nine persons were wounded before the robber was re-arrested with the aid of the fire brigade.

Terrible stories come from St. Petersburg of the torture of political prisoners. Many instances are cited in which girls were the victims, lighted cigarettes being applied to their naked bodies, and brutal floggins were given. It is estimated that sixty-eight thousand workmen will be permitted to vote at the Douma elections. .

The bank at Kiel! has. failed, the deficiency being ,£750,000.

A RECENT MUTINY

St. Petersburg. March 3

Lieutenant Schmidt has been sentenced to be hanged and three sailors to be shot in connection with the late naval mutiny at Seavstapol. Two others were sentenced to imprisonment for life and twenty-dive other mutineers have received smaller sentences.

•Lieutenant Schmidt was the central figure of a brief but exciting mutiny at Sebastopol last November. The affair was planned several days before. One morning the crew of the cruiser Otchakoff incarcerated their officers, and Schmidt took command, hoisted the red flag and opened fire on the Rostislav. The fight became one between the rebel ship, and the rest of the fleet, plus the shore batteries, and it was not many minutes before the red flag gave place to the white, and Schmidt was placed under arrest.