RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8242, 21 September 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

AN OFFICIAL SENTENCED.

Received September 20, 10.30 a.m ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 19.

I At Odessa an official was sentenced j to three years' imprisonment, though it was proved that he personally killed two Jewish families, comprising 11 persons. INCOMPETENT EXECUTIONER. Received September 20, 8.57 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept 19. Eye witnesses allege that the incompetence uf the executioner, who was pardoned among the Sveaborg mutineers, prolonged for half-an-hour the sufferings of tbe girl, Konopli Anniko, who was sentenced to be hanged for the murder of General Minn, commander of the Semenoffsky Regiment, at Peterhof railway station, on August 26th, and who was executed at the burg prison.

INTENSE ALARM AT ODESSA.

Received September 20, 10.35 a.m ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 19.

The Czar's speech, which was read at the closing of tbe Finnish Diet, promised early relief for needy agriculturists and industrialists.

The priest at Stepbanolika, in Snmara, states that a horrible famine has demoralised the peasants, who, while detroying enormous quantities of grain for vengeance, exist on a meal per day—often of sour milk, given them as charity. Numbers of parents are deserting their children. Intense alarm is experienced among the Jens at Odessa, at certain actions on tbe part of the soldiers and polios, in connection with Jewish shops, which is interpreted to mean that a massacre is in preparation. THE THREATENED OUTBREAK AT ODESSA. GUARDING THE [CONSULATES. Received September 20, 9.18 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 20. The Consuls at Odessa requested the authorities to guard the Consulates. The request has teen granted. M. Stolypin has declared that j the Government will not permit further massacres.