RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8213, 17 August 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

UEAVY DEFALCATIONS.

Reoeived August 15, 8.35 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 14. Au official enquiry into the defalcations on the Siberian railway during the late Russo-Japanese war shows that the contents of sixteen hundred waggons disappeared. The State was defrauded of £750,000 sterllugafc one station.

BOMB THPOWN AT A POLICE STATION.

SEVERAL PERSONS WOUNDED

Reoeived August 16, 11.27 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 16. Two bombs thrown at Cblodua Street Police Station at Warsaw wounded two poliloemen and an infantryman severely and many slightly. Traffics has been suspended, and the shops closed. A poliueman was murdered in the ■evening.

WHOLESALE SHOOiINGS OF POLICE.

ST. PETERSBURG, August 16. A message from Warsaw states that the Kevolutonists have organised wholesale, ahootiags of police. They killed 17 policemen, four gendarmes, seven infantrymen, ' and wounded 17 policemen and soldiers. The latter firing a volley in reply, killed 15 Revolutionists, and wounded 130 with bullets and bayonets.

POLICE OFFICIALS MURDERED.

Received August 16, 11 30 p.m. ST. {PETE RSBURG, August 16. The revolutionists at Woolawek shot and killed the ohief of police and also the ohief ofj the rural police. The assassins escaped.

BOMB OUTRAGE AT LODZ,

POLICE STATION WRECKED.

Received August 16, 9.54 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 16. Three bombs wrecked the police station 'at Lodz and killed a policeman, a Cossaok, and three infantrymen. One hundred- arrests were raade later. : The infantry and 'patrols fired volleys in all directions in four streets, killing two persona and wounding twenty one.