RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81839, 4 September 1906, Page 3

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

QUICKFIRERS STOLEN. STOLYPIN OUTRAGE VICTIM. MUTINY, OUTRACE, AND MURDER. Received 3rd, 9.44 p.m. St. Petersburg, September 3. Two quickfirers and another gun were stolen from torpedoes at Se" bastopol. Prince Shokovskv. the Government's lep.esentative on the directorate of tne Official Telegraph Agency at St. Petersburg, was injured at Scolypln's villa, and has succumbed. One hundred and thirty-seven mutinous sappers at Irkutsk were arrested, after expelling their officers. . Remezoff, president of the Tula District Court, was assassinated. His assailants escaped. A bomb thrown at a policeman in the square at Grodno wounded a dozen, including a woman. Further police have been shot by revolvers at Warsaw. LIBAU SNIPERS OVERPOWERED. REVOLUTIONARIES' CRUELTIES. COLD-BLOODED TORTURE AND MURDER. POLICE QUITTINC THE SERVICE.

Received 3rd, 11.15 P m - St. Petersburg! September 3. Troops attacked a house at Libau whence shots had wounded a police" man and four civilians. They killed two and wounded thirty, and a'so arrested two m>'n and twenty-nine women. London, September 3. The ''Te'egraph's" St. Petersburg correspondent narrates Revolutionary cruelties in the Baltic provinces, and their cold-blooded torture and murder of some of Stolypin's adherents.

The police in many districts in Russia are quitting the service, as the Government does not protect them. Governors assisting them have been relieved of their posts, and secret partisans of revolution secured appointments to some places in succession to bureaucrats.