YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7998, 8 December 1905, Page 3

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

Government lost aijl. aithOIUTY. THE FEASANTS TAKE A HAM>. St. PEIERSBI'Rfi, Pre. fi Fifty thousand . inhabitants left Odessa owing to the Cerrorism. There arc 60,000 under arms at this place. The St. Petersburg First Ariny Corps m Manchuria arrives in St. Petersburg in a week's time. The Government have lost all authority. In the Baltiq Provinces the military ara fraternising with tfa revo lutionists. The ferment amongst the marines in Libau continues. UK peasants have) dcposnl the clergy officials and installed iheir own officials. Thojr have also prevented the landholder* from selling th? grain, and proclaimed the forests communal property. Bands of criminals arc scouring H, - province*, and attacking the mansion* and burning jthe cat) In in their stalk. 1 IHt ISLAND massacre. TfcllßlnLE ATROCITY. SYDNEY, Pec. 0. Further particulars of the massacre of missionaries at' Licuchan show that It was a terribly atrocious affair. Those who Were butchered an?) mutilated were the Iter, and Mrs IVale, Mrs Mackle, Miss Chestnut and child, and Annto MacVVs, while Dr. Mackle. head of tbc mlr'ton. and Iff. Elomor Patterson escaped. When tfco party escaped from thj n>ission house, they took refuge in the toropfo of« cave. The crowd followed ami burst in the door. Dr. Mafklo (escaped by stretching himself flat on the water. Wiss Patterson escopid by hilling in the well.