RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8042, 1 February 1906, Page 2

RUSSIA.

DELIVER UP ARMS OR BE SHOT. A PIiKKMP'fOItY DEMAND. Received 31,11.21 p.m. Sr. Pktkbsbubo, January 31. Owing to the murder of two police, men at Kielse, the Governor demand# the delivery, within three days, of all arms and explosives held without li. cense, otherwise those found in posses, sion will be shot vithout trial. In the case of minors carrying arms the parents or guardians will be shot. A TOWN IN FLAMES. LOOTED Bi' HOOLIGANS AND COSSACKS. Bccoived 31,10.10 a.m. St. Petersburg, Januury 31, The town of Gomel is iu flames, and Cossacks and hooligans are sacking the town for loot. COSSACK REGIMENT DISBANDS

EXECUTING DEVOLUTIONARIES. St. PiiTHiwiii-BG, January 30. The Second Ural Cossack Itcgimout, stationed at Katerinodao, while pro. tossing fidelity to the Czar, declare that it is impossible to serve as instruments of repression after the manifesto of October 3rd, and therefore return home. Punitive columns in tho Baltic Pro. viuces are executing insurgents wholesale. The Czar has ordered a committee to inquire iato tho mismanagement of the Black SoaFleet. M. Durnovo has forbidden a Mokam. medaii Congress in Moscow, though scores of delegates travelled thousands of miles in order to discuss political, social, and religious requirements. POLICE STATION STORMED. Received 1, 12 30 a.m. St. Pktebsuukg, January 31. A crowd at Riga stormed the police station, killing three policemen, and releasing seventeen political prisoners-