RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8164, 22 June 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE BIELOBTOK MASSACRE. SOLDIERS' BARBAROUS • CONDUCT. Received June 21, 8.32 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, June 20. Soldiera who took part in the massacre at Bielostok tortured and killed a number of Jewish girls in an attic, and afterwards declared they had done what they were ordered. Elsewhere the inmates of dwellings were ordered ouc, and tbe Jews were separated from Christians and shot. The Citizens' Guard at Warsaw seized three agents-provocateurs, who confessed that the polioe paid them to create a panic and inoite the people against the Jews. UNITED STATES ASKED TO INTERVENE. Received June 21, 10 p.m. LuNDON, June 21. Eminent Jewish financiers in London, Berlin and Paris, are seeking through the Jewish bankers in America to induce the United States to intervene nn behalf of the Russian Jews. ALARMING RRPORTS. DISAFFECTION AMONGST THE TROOPS. Received June 21, 9.30 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, June 21. There are alarming j-veports of disaffection amongst the Guards and Hussar Regiments. Several newspapers] have been confiscated for referring to the subject. A REGIMENT MUTINIES. OFFICERS FIRED UPON. SEVERAL KILLED. Received June 21, 9.10 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, r June2l. A regiment mutinied at Kiazan. They si*grounded and fired into their officers at a Club, killing several.