RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7974, 27 February 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

AN ANTI-SEMITIC AGITATION.

Reoeived February 26, 8.45 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, February 25. There are three hundred aad fifty four anti-Semitic agitators at Kheiff, which is the. headquarters of the movement for the extermination of Jews in Southern Russia. The Petrovsky Monastery and Madame Novikoff, a wealthy land owner, have contributed £2,500 and £1,500, respectively, to the agitation fund.

REVOLUTION MOVEMENT AGAIN SPREADING.

STATE OF SIEGE PROCLAIMED IN SIXTY-TWO PLACES.

Received February 26, 8.i2 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, February 25. A state of siege has' been proclaimed in sixty two places, and a minor state of siege in thirty-four places in Russia. Ten thousand people have been arrested, and of these fourteen hundred have been summarily executed. At the capital twenty workmen's cheap restaurants have been closed.

SEVENTY-EIGHT NEWSPAPERS

SUSPENDED.

Received February 26, 8.45 a.m. ST. PETEiJSURG, February, 25. During the month ended on the 7th, seventy-eight Russian newspapers were suspended and .fifty-eight editors arrested.

WARSAW SOCIALISTS.

Received February 27, 1.31 a.m, ST. PETESRBURG, February 26.

Socialists ac Warsaw invhded au electoral meeting. A Iree fight with revolvers ensued, and one man was billed and fifteen others wounded.

MORE OFFICIALS MURDERED,

Received February 27, 1.21 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, February 26. /Bombs were thrown while the police were searching a bouse, at Odessa, filling Commissary Dvornik. Dvormk's wife, in her house, was bombarded by three anarchists, who were killed in the rums.

An unknown gang killed M. Ivanoff, , Director of the Vistula Railway, at Warsaw. The 1 deed is supposed to have been done for reveuge for numerous dismissals after the strike.