DISTURBED RUSSIA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8737, 11 February 1907, Page 2

DISTURBED RUSSIA.

Pres? A ssoCkit ion—Copy rigid. Sr. PEtchsnnßO, February I); 31. Aiexalidrovski, Governor of Pcnsa, iu Eastern Russia, was leaving the theatre in company with the Assistant Chief of .Police when a youth armed with a revolver lived, killing both. 1 The assassin then rushed into the theatre and shot at the manager, who was trying to arrest him, the bullet missing tho manager and killed a policeman. Tho assassin next sought refuge in a cloak room, and an attendant locked the door. The assassin finding himself trapped, committed suicide. The bullets used were poisoned with cyanide of potassium. The revolutionaries had condemned Alexandrovski, who was formerly a Cpmniijjsionei* of the Red Cross organisation, ou the ground that his mismanagement and corruption caused deaths innumerable of wounded soldiers.