RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8122, 19 April 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ARMOUR FOR POLICE OFFICERS.

Received April 18, 9.1 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, April 17

Tbe Moscow police officers have been provided with breastplates and back armour for protection against as=a=sination by revolutionaries..

A COSSACK OFFICER MURDERED.

Received April 18, P. 4 a.in." ST. PETERSBfJKG, April 17. A Cossack officer lias been murdered in tbe street at Boriauglyebak, in Central Kusaia, for torturing the girl Spiridouovo,charged with killing M. Luzheuoffaky, Vice-Governor of Tamboff. (Great wrath was aroused in Liberal ciroles in St. Petersburg by the pubiiuation of a letter from Mile. Spiridonovo, the 17-year-old girl who ehofc M. Luzhenoffsky, chief of the secret police at Tamboff, in which she described tbe indignities and brutalities to which she was subjected. On account of her youth and her self-sacrifice in executing tbe sentence against JM. Luzhenoffsky, who was detested on aooounnt of his cruelty in suppressing the peasant disorders she has beau made one of the heroines of tbe revolution, and is called a second Charlotte Corday. The letter says that after the shooting of Luzhenoffsky, Mil*. Spiridonovo was knocked down and beaten with the whips of the Cossacks and rifle butts. Sbe was then dragged by her haii downstairs to a sleigh by the enraged Cossacks, taken to the police station, undressed, and thrust into a damp, cold cell, where she was subjected to eleven hours of torment in order to force her to reveal the names of her accomplices. The girl says that two officers took brutal pleasure in kicking her back and forth across her cell, tearing her hair, burning her flesh with their oigarettes and threatening her with abandonment to the Cossacks unless she confessed. Mlle.Spiridonovo is now in a hospital in a serious condition. Her skull is fractured in two places, one eye is injured, and her body is a mass of bruises from head to foot.)