SLAUGHTER IN HARBIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8003, 14 December 1905, Page 2

SLAUGHTER IN HARBIN.

300 persons shot down. Mutineers, use machine guns. St. Petehsbobg, December 12, General Macdowiloff, arriving at Harbin, sent mon to burn several barracks andoxpell, the mutineers.. The latter mingled with the terror-strick-en inhabitants, and cava'y slaughtered 300, mostly mutineers. The latter were reinforced and used machine guns, killing many of the cavalry. The trouble had b,een resumed when the refugees who brought the details left Harbin. Two sotnias of Cossacks in Moscow have demanded permission to rett -n to their homes. Troops in Warsawhave again refisedto the on a revolution!-•/ procession. Two lipdrcd solders at Kushka Transcaspia, attended a railway men's meeting, which decided to remove the military authorities from the fortress and replace them by revolutionaries. Three of the r'ngleaders were arrested. Wholesale arrests havo been made in Moscow, inoluding members of the committee of the Post aud Tolcgraph,' Union.

Peasants in Livonia attacked a detachment of troops, and seized their arms. They the>T3Eifc*tl2mr lectors' estates, and oaptr.ed a train thus escaping with their biJb y. A thousand pounds in Eng'ish gold and silver hrs.beon unearthed- at Cronstadt, which was used as a hos- i pital dt'ring the war. Tho money has not been claimed. , '