THE RUSSIAN UNREST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8051, 20 February 1906, Page 2

THE RUSSIAN UNREST.

REVOLUTIONISES PLUtfDEB. ING. EXPELLING UNDESIRABLES. LIEUT. SCHMIDT'S INCAUCEHA. TION. Received 10, 0.14 p.m. Sr. Peteusiwho, February 15. Owing to the reluctance of wealthy Liberals to continue to contribute alter tbe failure of the Moscow uprising) the revolutionaries are systematically rob. bing the bauks, treasury offices and brandy shops, One band killed four officials at the Treasury at Unman, and decamped with twenty-two thousand pounds. Another band robbed the Union world at Eiga of £llOO. Owing to the prisons all being full, the Government is compelling em. ploycrs to dismiss undesirables, who aro then expelled from St. Petersburg, Gcnorals Kuropatkin and Batianoff have been recalled from Manchuria. Lieutenant "Schmidt refused food for six days because his relations were not allowed to visit him. Counsel intend) to refuse to defend him on the ground that ho is insane, and petition! Count Witte to stop the trial. GENERAL LINEVITCH' BESIS". NATION. PILLAGE AND .EXTORTION. St, Petbbsbcbg, February 18. Gcnoral Linevitch has resigned command of the troops in the East, owing to his failure to quell disturb' amies. Gcnoral Grodekoff has succeeded him. Socialists in Polaud pillaged five Government alcohol stores, and looted one store of fivo thousand roubles. Eight conspirators wero arrested at Kioff for extorting moaoy for revolutionary purposes by moans of threatening letters, signed by Anarchists at Vladivostok. While a truck was being unloaded at St. Petersburg station, a case cxii plodcd, killing four persons. Wlwn abght it was found to contain fifty-four similar cases. The driver and a brakesman, shunting tbe engine, prevented further disaster by removing the truck to a siding, where it exploded harmlessly.