THE RUSSIAN DISORDERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8138, 21 June 1906, Page 3

THE RUSSIAN DISORDERS.

" FURTHER ANTI-JEWISH OUTBRJSAKP PEA.RED. CHIEF INSTIGATOR PROMOTED. St. Petersburg, June 10. Fifty persons hare been killed at Starosielie, near Bielostok. Other anti-Semitic outbreaks are threatened iu the governments of Minsk, Vilna, Kovno, and Grodno, in Western Russia. Masses of State employees have threatened a general strike if the Douma is dissolved. The Douma's commissioners at Bielostok found a hospital patient's eyes driven in with large nails. All the Jots in the house whence the first shots were- reported to h ive been fired were collected in a yard and shot and bayonetted. Police Superintendent Sheremitieff. who was chiefly responsible for the massacre, has been transferred and promoted. MARCHING TO REVOLUTION. FINANCIAL CIRCLES ALARMED Pabib, June 19. There is a growing fear in Paris that l&ussia is marching to revolution, and possibly to the repudiation of her foreign loans. Russia- has drained European finances dry.

HORRIBLE OUTRAGES AT BIKLuSTOK. SICKENING DETAILS. HOOLIGANS CONGRATULATED. AN HEROIC PROFESSOR. JUceivcd 20, 9.21 p.m. j St. Pbtersbubo, June 20. Some notable speeches were made in the Doama on the Bill establishing equal civic rights. Jewish equality and the rights of women were strenuously advocated. Terrible outrages are proved to have been committed at Bielostok. Girl* were horribly mutilated rnider their parents' eyes. Some Jews had both legs sawn off. Many of the dead bad nails driven in their trunks and beads.

The troops turned back to avoid Beeing the excesses of hooligans, and officers congratulated the plunderers on their merry-making. Professor Jacobowaky heroically gaved seventeen Jewish refugees by telling the hooligans they must kill him before they attacked the fugitives.