RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81849, 21 September 1906, Page 3

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

A BUNGLED EXECUTION. JEWISH MASSACRE FEARED. St. Petersburg, September 19. Eye-witmsses a.iege that the incompetence of the executioner, who was a pardoned Sveaborg mutineer, prolonged the girl Konopliannikov's sufferings to half an hour.

A priest at Stephanolika, Samara, slates that horrible famine has dent jralised the peasants, who, whiie destroying enormous quantities f grain for vengeance, exist on a meal a day, often of sour milk, which is given them as charity. Numbers are deserting their children. There is intense alarm among the Jews at Odessa at certain actions on the part of the soldiers and police in connection with Jewish shops, which are interpieted to mean that a massacre is in preparation.

THREATENED OUTBREAK IN ODESSA. CONSULS TAKE ACTION. AUTHORITIES GRANT PROTECTION. GOVERNMENT NOT PERMIT FURTHER MASSACRES. Received 20U1, 9.1S p.m. St. Petersburg, September 20. The Consuls at Odessa discussed the threatened outbreak, and re quested the authorities to guard th Con-u'ates. The request was granted. The Union of Russian people wired to Odessa that tbey had sern M. Stolypin, who declared the Government would not permit further inas sacres.