Patrols on Russian Frontier.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7739, 15 February 1905, Page 3

Patrols on Russian Frontier.

St. PETERSBURG. Feb. 13. One humfted and -forty-four persons were buried at Lodz. There are twe hundred wounded in hospital. Owing to the indignant fury of tht people of Sosnowice since the Catherine! colliery massacre, lnrgclj augmented detachments of Prussiar mounted police are patrolling' the frontier. They are allowed, /if necessary, to enter Russian territory ! for the purpose of convincing tht i Poles that unauthorised refugees will 'not be allowed to cross. ! Concerted measures have been takjen to protect the Russian railwaj 'bridge across the lirinit/.a. i Many reservists in Yolhynia and 'Podolla took refuge in the forests. Reservists arriving in Kieff begar plundering, and killed a policeman. Cossacks tired, killing several. DAULN'G IIEMOXSTIUTIOX IN MOSCOW. (Received Feb. ID, 1.15 a.m.) St. PETERSBURG. Feb. 14. An astounding demonstration took place at the annual ball of the Engineering Institutes, Moscow, held :in the Nobles' Assembly Hall, where I the police arc forbidden to make arrests. Instead of dancing, the Marsellai.se was played, the students making revolutionary speeohes, and shouting "Stop the war !" "Down with Autocracy !" Proclamations were issued threatening to mobilise the working classes and upset the Government, which it is alleged is Russia's worst foe.