RIOTING IN RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7922, 11 September 1905, Page 3

RIOTING IN RUSSIA.

POTMIIG THE lALCOHTESTS St, Petersburg, Sept. 8. Uic Bourse Gazette states that there is unmistakable evidence that a Mahommedan plot has been discovered at Erivan (Caucasus) for the conquest of the country, A court-martial at Warsaw sentenced Jcfcann Baspz&k, a -wellknown ex-editor and Socialist leader, to death for killing (our policemen who were trying to arrest him.

There are fresh disturbances as the outcome of the departure of reservists from Übau. Soldiers fired a volI?5~ into the mob, killing 15. The soldiers stormed the barricaded hospital at Halakhany, Haku, and bayoocttod the men working the barricades.

HOSPITAL SEIZED ABD SHELLED TrMps IssiM with Boiling Oil Sifotj of Britishers it Biku Horrible lusuk of Armeniins (Received Sept. ICK 4.19 p.m.) St. PETERSUIRO, Sept. ». A thousand Armenians and workmen seized the hospital at llalakhany, and ignored the' summons to surrender. r lTu*y killed a gunner. The troops then opened tiri'. ami their guns sent a shell crashing through the hospital, killing Htanv inside. The Armenians then quitted cover, assailing tho gunners with boiling oil. The.v capturvl the guns under cover of the smoke, and repelled the Cossacks, but the infantry came on the scene and recapture! the guns. All Britishers at Baku are safe on hoard a steamer but four, who are foodless and waterless, being surrounded by Tartars. Italakhauy, it is feared, has perished in flames. Partial pacification of the outbreak at Baku was effect wl by till' arrival of roinforceiuents, also a supply of bread. Keinforcements were sent to Shush ka, but despite the reassuring official messages, private telegrams rrpnrt a wholesale massacre of Armenians. Four hundred were hemmed In in a courtyard at a suburb of Baku, and were sent frantic. A request was made to the Governor for assistance, but none was forthcoming, and all were killed by the Tartars and troopg. In the villages ol Eudukrchu, Acb-

ilia, Alebu'raes, am) Charmantahi, in Ihc Government of Elizabcthpol, a largo proportion of the inhabitants were put to death, and the rest fled. All the houses were plundered and. burnt. • ■ ) A thousand Tartars are besieging [the Armenians at Zabrata.