RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81849, 20 September 1906, Page 3

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

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COURT-MARTIAL JUSTICE. I THREATENED REPRISALS. St. Petersburg, Sepi. iS. Many servants in the Czar's palace have Ijcen arresie:! for showing active sympathy with the revolutionaries. Two hundred were arrested hap hazard a. S'idoce and bo tried befoie a Court-martial composed f officers implicated in the massacre. Representativei of British and Jews appeal against the prevention of a terrible crime. Socia ists at Odessa have issued a proclamation betting forth their ; n teniion to kill three officials for every patriot executed by drumhead court-martial, the first victims to be the military judges, the Governor and the Commander in-Chief. SVEABORG MUTINEERS SEN TENCED. SEARCHING MOSCOW RESIDENTS.

Received ltjih, n.y p.m. St. Petersburg, Sept. nj. Seventeen sailors sentenced after the Sveaborg mutiny, were shot yesterday. Eighty others were sentenced to penal servitude, and service with disciplinary battalions, and 11 acquitted. Gunboats and troops stopped Warsaw traffic on the river and streets in one district, while soldiers searched nine hundred inhabitants. THE ANTI-JEWISH PROPOSALS GOVERNMENT RETRACTS. THE CZAR'S SAFETY. Received ltjtli, 11.35 p.m. St. Petersburg, Sept. iq. M. Stolvpin informed a deputation of Jews that he had telegraphed that it was not desirable to summari ly try Jews at Siedlice.

The Czar's abandonme nt of his intention to shorten his cruise in order to attend General Trepoff's funeral is interpreted as connected with fear of an attempt 011 his life. SIEDLICE JEWISH MASSACRES. REPRESENTATIONS TO BRIT ISH AMBASSADOR. Received iyth, 11.9 p.m. London, Sept. if). Jews have petitioned King Edward to intercede with the Czar regarding the Siediice Jews. Sir Charles llardinge, in response, to a deputation, telegraphed to Sir Arthur Nicholson, British Ambassador at St. Petersburg, concerning' reports of preparations for massacres i at Warsaw and elsewhere.