RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8028, 15 January 1906, Page 2

RUSSIA.

REIGN OF TERROR IN TRANSCAUCASIA. THE SINEWS 01' WAR. J! E VOLUTIONISTS ALAJiMED. FRENZIED RUSSIAN FINANCE. Received 11, 1,31 p.m. St. PETEiisiireo, January 13. Many revolutionaries luvc been arrested al Novominsk. Advices from Tiflis state that the authorities have inaugurated a reign of terror, people being shot down and houses bombarded. The French bankers' loan has iilnnned Russian reformers, who i'orsec a eonti nuance of reaction as long as the war chest is replenished. The tnipenal Bank lias been empowered to issue fifteen million sterling in notes. The newspaper "Molva" remarks that since the note limit has been raised to forty-five million sterling, the recent issue of forty million bonds, convertible into gold, practically exhausts (he goid reserve.

■ The Lithuanians have risen at Kovno, and five punitive columns have been sent there. CONVEYING A LESSON. A SEMINARY BOMBARDED. St. Pbteusbuho, January 12. Kalmauovitch, a lawyer, was arrested while conducting the defence of M. Bogdinovitcbes' assassins, who were taken outside the court and shot under Kalmanovitch's prison window. A bomb thrown from the Armenian seminary at Tiallis wounded a patrol. Artillery bombarded and burnt the seminary to the ground. Bombs and cartridges on the premises meanwhile exploded, and 33 persons were killed and 300 injured. Russian troops recaptured Novo Rossiysk from the revolutionaries. A. bread famine exists in Tiflis. The Vice-Governor of Irkutsk was wounded during a revolutionary outbreak aiul the Chief of Police killed.