Russia's Internal Troubles.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7952, 16 October 1905, Page 3

Russia's Internal Troubles.

Burtctde fighting it lowoiPolite Officer Asstssinated. St PETERSBURG, Oct 13. Colonel Estmann, Chief ot \ , c atKrasnoysvak, has been murdered. The assassin escaped. General Trepoll has forbidden the-, peasant elders to conduct electioneering or distribute political literature. He threatens to .tfcport Opposi-, tion leaders to Siberia, and insists that only electors shall participate in the elections.

Nothing has been heard ot the promised freedom of the press. (Received Oct. 15, 4.21 p.m ) St. PETERSBURG, Oct. 11.

Workmen at Moscow erected barricades in the Ror.hdeslvtmsky Avenue) Ijat the Cosjsacks destroyed the barricades and injured six of the defenders. i

M. Ossovsky, assistant chief of thr) police at KishnielT, has been assassinated. He was largely responsible lor the massacres of 1903, and, later, (or the anti-Semitic disturbances.

ProTidtog for t Contingency. Gersuny uitutrii to.Owipj Pound. (Received Oct. 16, 0.18 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 14."" The Warsaw correspondent of the London Observer reports that at Germany's instigatirn Russia, Germany, and Austria sifned an agreement on Feb. 1 that in the event of a revolution in .Russian Poland, Germany ami Austria to occupy Poland witbnot less than two army divisions.