RUSSIAN CRISES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7932, 4 January 1906, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISES.

I FIERCE FIGHTING IN THE j SOUiU. I THREE JHUXDuKI) KILLED. RAILWAY STATIOM:! PILLAGED Received January -i, 8.52 a.m. LONDON', January 2. A Reutoi'a states that many hours' fierce limiting took place oil Saturd jv at 15•tklrnut. 123 miles east of K'vitoruioslav, in Southern Russia, b_>tw<u?u Cossacks and rebel?. Tho latter worn c:iu«ht between two fires and dually rcited. Three hundre 1 r ;b -1 i were killed. The troops lost t.ou m >u. Anarchy prevail < alnn j Iho Sibßriau railway. All tho Htalions have been pillaged. Military trains, in charge of unqualified errji'iaers. follow one another indiscriminately. AT MOSCOW. MANY INSURGENTS DROWNED. BRUTAL ACTS. Received January 3, 8.52 a.m. LONDON, January 2. According to a ma sage received through Renter's Agency the rebels who were captured at Moscow attempted to escape on Saturday night. They tried to oros' the river, but (he attempt wars fatal to a large number. Sappers had secretly cut athirty-feefc channel in the ice, aud maav of the unfortunate rebels wore drowned. Some soldiers at Moscow on Sunday killed a doctor at his residence for refusing to cease tending the wounded. A number of rebels crucified a policeman on a tramcar in a street in Moscow. The unfortunate man waa rescued before he was dead. RELIEF WITHHELD. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 2. M. Durnotvo, Minister of thw Interior, withholds famine reliefs to all the villages implicated in the agrarian outrages. FATAL COLLISION. Received January 3, 8.52 a.t«. ST. PETERSBURG, Jn». 2. Thirty soldiers were killed and many injured as the result of a collisoa between railway train«. DRAGOONS SURPRISED. A JEWISH ANARCHIST CLUB. Received Ja»uary 3, 11.21 p.m. ST. fIPTERSBURG, January 3. While a squadron of Dragoons were grooming their horses at Riga, 300 workmen, suddenly attacking them with revolvers and swords, killed eleven and wounded fourteen. Eight workmen killed, and the rest withdrew. The bomba seised at Warsaw be longed to a Jewish Anarchists' Olub, which has been terrorising Jewish business men. The revolutionists are shooting the drivers of the Polish trains. Three bridges have been destroyed. GRIM PREPARATIONS AT RIGA. A VICE-GOVERNOR ASSASSINATED. Received January 4, 1.5 a.m. LONDON, January 3. The T;mes states that General Sollagule has placed machine guns all over Riga, warships aie outside, and everything ia ready for repression as sanguinary as at Moscow. General Bogdanovitcb, Vice Governor of Tambouff, has auocurabed to wounds inflicted by an assassin. LIBERALS DESPONDENT. THE GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE Received January 4, 1.4 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 3. Liberal circles in St. Petersburg are despondent. They foresee the complete ascendancy of the reactionaries. The Government announce further pains and penalties for railway strikers. They declare that the troops at Moscow, besides being faithful, suppressed the rebellion with the vigor of conviction. They add that the Government are determined to energetically crush the revolution still active in siome places.

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