TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 100, 29 April 1902, Page 3

TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.

FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. St. Petersburg, April 27. Famine in the Poltava and Kharkoff districts drove the peasants to forcibly seize seed corn. Sarious rioting occured, and an attempt by troops to disperse the rioters resulted in 18,000 breaking out in open revolt. M. de Plehive, the recently appointed Minister for the Interior, is proceeding south to investigate the pesition, and reinforcements of troops have been ordered to the disturbed districts. A REVOLUTION IMMINENT. WIDESPREAD DISORDER AND KAVAGING OF ESTATES. Received 28,10.40 p.m. London, April 28 Beater's agency reports little. Russia is bordering on a revolution. Starving peasan's in Poltava, incited by .Nihilists, attacked sixty esta'es, destroying ev ryr.hing they were unaM* to remove and throwing into the > iver enormous quantities of goods stored in the refineries.

Twenty estates were iavaged at Kbarkoff, tbe landlords fle iog and abandoning everything. It is feared tbe fury of the mob will ruaco the towns.

While some officials exhibit weakness others order the soldiers to flog peasants wholesale. The Cza has abandoned his intention to visi' Moscow, owing to the serious agitation thpre.

Ministers arc cail> >hi«iteotd with death. Sfcret agita uiv are urging a strikn of St. Petersburg factory workers in Mav.

The inquiry IVO the murder of M, revealed a wide antiGovernment conspiracy. Numerous nrrf-sts hive been made, including a Jewess, who was betrothed to Pascbanett (the assussin) and her father, who suppled the nuansforthe assassination. Paschanett vainly tried to commit suicide when inform* d if their arrest. THE lABOUK QUESTION. Beceived 28,11.26 p.a:. St. Pbtersbubq, April 28. The Russian labour agitators urge the peasants to rid tbe country of the "foreign devils," whtther capitalists, engineers, or managers, Moscow workman have askd M. Plehivu to permit organisation on the lines of English Trade Unions.