ROUMANIAN HORRORS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3762, 2 April 1907, Page 3

ROUMANIAN HORRORS.

Fierce Fighting.

Terrible Acts Of Cruelty.

Bucharest, March 29

The revolt iu Roumania is spreading northward and westward. It is characterised by the same scenes of arson, pillage, and wholesale destruction as have been in evidence hitherto.

Several proprietors of estates have each lost ,£40,000. Brancovan and Stirbei, in Roumania, have been devastated. The Bulgarian towns of Rustchuk, Sistova, and Nikopoli are full of refugees. Troops killed twenty-five peasants at Mazazi.

Bands of plunderers concentrated at Vicruodivaia and Stapeshi resisted until the artillery destroyed those villages. The artillery dispersed a band advancing on Girabatz(? Gaiatz), killing and wounding many. The state of Wallachia is very serious. Tranquility is almost restored in Modavia. Austrian troops are concentrating on the frontier to prevent revolutionary movement crossing the border. A thousand rebels attacked an infantry regiment at Brugadia. Half the soldiers refused to fire. When the order was repeated, they killed the colonel and joined the rebels. A sharp encounter resulted in 200 being killed. Eventually the rebels retired. The rebels have treated rich people ferociously. A wounded landlord begged for a priest, but the rebel leader stabbed him with a knife, shouting : “There’s absolution.” The rebel followers, with axes, hacked off arms and legs, while the others danced. New York, March 30. The American Jewish Committee is forwarding a sum of 200,000 dollars to co-religionists in Roumania who have suffered by the rising. This amount is the balance of a fund recently collected for the relief of Russian Jews. Bucharest, March 31. Vigorous measures have been adopted in Roumania, causing an improvement in the situation. There is increasing evidence that foreign anarchists are inciting the peasants, destruction rather than looting being the object of the jacquerie (peasants’ revolt). Eondon, March 31. The Daily Express reports that a battery met ten thousand peasants, armed with axes and scythes, engaged in burning Prince Stikbei’s palace. Four hundred were mowed down in a few minutes. The artillery killed and wounded a thousand who were pillaging an estate belonging to the Roumanian Minister at Vienna. Many women are among the rioters. Peasants poured petroleum over Captain Botez and roasted him alive. They also cut off the hands of a captured lieutenant.