RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7978, 15 November 1905, Page 3

RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY CRISIS.

Horrible Cruelty to Jsws. An Assassination List. Eiodns from St. Petersburg. St. PETEUSmitt;, Nov. 13. A mob at Kishineff plain! a number of .lows -in barrels studded with nails, trundling them, until dead. Two hundred Ishops an<l 'Aid houses were destroyed at '"katerinoslav. Seventy-eight Jews were killed and Kin wounded The .lows orr leaving St Petersliurg and other Jewish cut ns. many abandoning lucrative busim-ss. LOXHOX. Nov. i:i

The Times* St. Petersburg correspondent stales thai alarmist rc|«orls as io a gitieral massacre oi .'.-w* arc grossly misleading. Jewish cutrages ore unlikely to recur when the authorities, /police, and clergy support the reform movement Foreigners are injrfectly safe. PAUIS. Nov. l"*, St. Petcrs-burg advices state that several, officers ««« coiirtmartialled at Kronstadt, and shot'for donning civilian dress and* fleeing the city during the riots. St. PKTKRSI'UU*. Nov. i:S A list of mystorious origin is n circulation in Odessa containing the names of 100 prominent citizens for assassination.

Seven thousand respectable inhabitants, including many foreigners, ar» Awing from the city.

The Kaiser Blamed for the Martial Law Edict St. PKTEHSBI■■!«:, Nov. 11. M. Xeidgart. Prefect of Odessa, hal been dismissed for complicity in the massacre The Polish Press unanimously declare (hot martial law in I'oland'is the result of the Kaiser's intervention, and because ihc autocracy is incensed. Warsaw has not followed the example ,of : thc Odessa, KiefT, and Kisliineft massacres Two futile attempts were made to destroy, by means of bombs, trains tilled with soldiers on the Warsaw railway. (Received X'ov. 11. li>.'*t> p.m.j i. St. PFrrwßsncitG, Nov. it. Count du Witte has issued a communique declaring that while the troubles in the Vistula districts continue and the populace maintain their, demands (or complete autonomy, thereby aiming at the restoration of the Polish Kingdom, the inhabitants will not 'be* allowed to benelit under the manifestoes of Aug. J8 and Oct. 30. t'ninl de Witte declares that the Government .will not to(erat>' attacks on tin., iiiti-gril)' of the Kmpire. All sections of iho Progressives! are indignatrt. and it. is e.vpert.-d the cornmunniuc will cause a final and absolute |ni|rtuiv ,li.-tw<vii the <;<- vcnnnoiit ami the Liberals, since if (he provocative nu-asmes ar.enforced in , Poland Ihe.v will In- ri'gnnled iu> a flagrant vinl.it inn of Htv manifesto of Oct. "it. There arc 1 main' in St Pet. iburg who believe that martial law was proclaim ed in Poland from fear of tierinan inii-neirtiun.

Remis-ion of Taxation. De Wittt's Warning to toe Poles. (Uocriveil Sow If. !i.BO p .in ) St I'KTKHSHimtt, Sow U. Besides remitting 20 million roubles of laml redumption arrear.x the. Hussion (Jovci'imifiil has al|sulvi-.l tit.laiuiltes -of iinii kilUI ~i i!'■• u..r fn.'in all Statu iMvment.t. I.ONIMiN. \„v. I I. Hauler's Si. correspondent reports that in replying to c I'oli.stl deputation urging Ihe adrogation of rxeeplioiral InnasurM. Count tie Witte said it was a mistake to supposo the (."overiiiiienf was powerless or, to 'think it would surrender to a constant demand for an iiradniissrlile extension oil liVnies which camv miMv from a littk-gang of revolutionaries. A spring ha<\ hatl liegu" in the nation's I if,., but a reaction illicit Ml<«u. lie adihil that the .'exceptional ineUMin-s at Warsaw were taken at Ih"" instanc of the factory owners.

flniwrsal Sympathy lift m Jews In Important Mass Kteiicg (Keceived Nov. 1.1. 11.31 a.in.", LONDON, Nov. It. Sir Francis .Montcfiore presided at a mass mtvlinfe called to express horror at the /premeditated massacres of Jews. Mr lialfour telegraphed that th» Government heard of the 111n.ssa.crt-, with pity ami horror, ami hail already taken every .step to mitigate the calamity. Lord ItothschiM said lie lnhevnl Mr Halfour's ami Lord Lanvlmvn-'« action hadj producnl a gr«il salntory effect.

The Lord Mayor. Mr Chamberlain. Mr A.-Mpiith,' Lord • Uoseliery. Lord James of Hereford, the Bishops oi I/Oiidon'.ami Kipon. Hr. ClilTord. I{.v. It. J. Campbell, Chief KuMH Adlcr. the ftrt-hbixhop of Canterbury, and the Uoitan Catholic Archbishop of Westminster will messages expressing their fiorror.

Thi' mivting recorded its .-ani.-st conviction that ihe -lews were not. immune from a iivurnncc of • (he massacre until lhey olitained their publicly , recognised homd in Palatine.