THE RUSSIAN UNREST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7742, 18 February 1905, Page 3

THE RUSSIAN UNREST.

MUTINIES of thr military. IMPERIAL CONFIDENCES. St. PETERSBURG, Feb. 16. A mutiny of reservists at Polj ova has been repressed, and work resume:] in a number of additional factories in Lodz. A battalion at Opochka,, in the Government ot l'akov, mutinied when ordered to St. Petersbui'g to assist in maintaining order, and was linally allowed to remain. HIS KLIN, Feb.. l<s. lie: lin correspondents state that the Kaiser wilt the Czar a newspaper cutting revealing the events of Red Sunday." A special message was delivered during the Grand Dukes' absence, and thus the Czar iirst heard the real truth.

IiORRIIILE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST POLICE. (Received, Feb. 17, 9.17 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 17. Private letters received here give details of horrible brutalities perpetrated at Mohilefl by the Russian police under the pretext of suppressing demonstrations in the streets. The victims were chiefly Jews. Several girls werei flogtjed almost to death, and a hundred men cruelly injured, many being crippled for life. RECALCITRANT STUDENTS. (Received Feb. 17, 11.40 p.m.) St* I'ETF.RSIII RG, Feb. 17. The students at Moscow University have resolved to iliscontinue their studies, and the medical students at KeilT University decline to proceed to their examinations, in both cases as a political protest against Government interference.