RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81867, 17 October 1906, Page 3

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

THE CZARS INHUMANITY

Si. Petersburg, October 15

A gang at Piatcgirik entered the residence and killed the manager of Nobel's works and decamped with three hundred roubles.

The Russian Government has secretly circularised the Governors, '''- recting them, in the Czar's name, to see to the prompt execution of prisoners condemned by travelling courtmartial, also intimating that the Czar rejects all petitions for mercy.

A GHALTLY SCENE.

BUNGLED BUTCHERY OF

MUTINEERS.

Received It!, 9.35 p.m.

St. Peteesbdbo, October 16.

I Details of the execution of nineteen nav»l mutineers at :Kronstadt, cabled on the fifth, show that seventeen accepted the priesrs ministrations, while two refused. The officer reading aloud the sentences was stopped through the prisoners singing a revolutionary funeral hymn. The prisoners were tied to a rope stretched between two posts. Their request not to have sacks placed over their heads was refused. The firing pirty, drawn from the lifclu mlantry, who, like the prisoners were shivering with cold, muddled the firing. The volley k lied only three outright. The killed aud wounded dragged down the others into a confused mass, from which arose cursings at the executioners for their clumsiness. The firing then degenerated into butchery. The corpses were crammed into sacks and dropped into the sea