THE RUSSIAN FERMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8026, 12 January 1906, Page 3

THE RUSSIAN FERMENT.

POGIC® GIVEN EVTRAORDIN ARY i POWERS. t ■A cablegram from Moscow to tne_ , " Sou" 6l?aThis has been a day■ of rioting anj bloodshed. Shortly after .noon orowds on the Evcrskov Bnul«Tjdo assumed threatening proportions. Tho polioo and the military, horse and •fori witih Cossacks, were fully prepared, •and'a pitched battle took place. jaohrea and carbines of the faoops-—who fired tliree volleys point blank at the people, were met by tlio orowd with . Atones and revolvers. . It is impossible to estimate tho casunltiea oe. iKOrdine to cuetom, immediately 'after tlhe mob was dispersed the streets were cordoned. and the dead and into yards, and the that 30,000 men employed in the great factories may join m a <v«monstration. The populace .8 exasperated to the last degree, less by open street fighting ton notioD of the police agamst all P«®> m> after the disturbances hare been quel ed. -Hie Prefect has issued a tion which places the in absolute possession of more than a civilised army wo " ld ir ® mp ' B °. against an army m too of war. j virtue of proclamation, the pohce my seize any person "tfhey please. Any P text is sufficient for arrest. After the fighting was OV^o^. ( l boys and youths, men and women, we « draggod into the Prefects comtyai<, the gates of which were then closed. Thereupon beiian what is know as , ison to the intellectuals. Scores w«e to a long stable, along the sides !1 K Inch were drawn no two line, ><» 3 i troops, mostly &*saeks. lhf wore nade to run the gannl.e . •5l fi f fc y mcn on each side, who w« , tl em w itJi whips and brutally sU , f •» the_bntt f , t ~u ll until n-Z'Sf fainting or dead. They they ikopped,, , \ n ., r6nloT «] to t i hen ,E^ ri v or mortuary. The wer6 taken unfortunate tMa peonlinr tfrvght from Who,:! Kussrnn form <n ** > posribiKty of oflermg «««"?* 97 " "an jeoueatioß against tnem.