RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81846, 13 September 1906, Page 3

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

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A DAYLIGHT ROBBERY. SUBDIVISION OF ESTATES. St. Petersburg, September 11. A band of armed ruffians, in daylight, and in view u[ a number of persons, robbed the bank at Bgclajuzerkoff of 80,000 roubles. Count Strogcnoff criers to sell the whole ot bis family estates in Perm, comprising 2,500,000 acres, to the Peasants Bank, which is buying largely from the nobles, at an aveiage of 48 roubles per acre, although peasants buying direct can pay 42 ro/übles. Since November the bank has bought five million acres of private estates and helped 03,161 peasants to purchase 800,000 acres by loans amounting to five millions sterling. Shakermann, a Jewish girl, was sentenced to be hanged for throwing a bomb, which did no harm, at a policeman who participated in the Jewish massacres at Odessa.

THE TERRORISTS' REIGN IN WARSAW. TROOPS SEARCHING THE HOL'SES. 1000 JEWS ARRESTED. ■Received 12th, q-35 p.m. St. Petersburg, Septmber 12. Troops searched two hundred houses in Warsaw and arrested a thousand Jews, including many children, whom the Terrorists employ to execute outrages upCn Government officials, because they are not liable to capital punishment.

THE HOUNDING-DOWN PROCESS. Received 12th, 10.1 p.m. St. Petersburg, September 12. Troops stopped and searched evert one found in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw, mercilessly shooting and bayonetting all who protested, or offered the slightest resistance. RIOTING AT KAMYSHIN. SCORES KILLED BY THE TROOPS. Received 12th, 11.22 p.m. St. Petersburg, September I2 ; Desperate noting occurred at Kamyshin, Russia, owing to the mob attempting to release a popular leader. The troops volleyed, killing .•cores.