PANDEMONIUM AT TIFLIS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12649, 10 November 1905, Page 5

PANDEMONIUM AT TIFLIS.

OHULDiRKM KILLED LIKE

SPARROWS

DISORDER AND FAMINE

EXCITEMENT IN WARSAW,

A MASSAORiE OF JEWS ORGANISED

United Press* Association—Copyright.

Received November 8, 8.40 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, November 7. There are terrible disorders at Bessarabia. The unemployed are joining tho "Hooligans," who plunder and murder indiscriminately. Famine is general, and hundreds-are dying of starvation.

Ten thousand of the " black gang " «»f Mojswan attacked the Engineers' College. The students fired, killing 15 and wounding 'many. The troops rescued the students. Kaullbars has tappetaled to the Odessa editors to refrain from illustrating or describing the massacres, otherwise he will not guarantee that there will not be a fresh outburst.,

The editors, interpreting this as a threat, have complied. At the OEtablbis' instigation, the police a<ra collecting signatui-es, thanking Kaulbars for; defending the Jews. The latter 'are indignant aznd refuse to sign. The ißaibbi ~ implies that fresh massacres will folltfy? unless they sign. The butchers .of Moscow have pledged themselves..to kill, ail students, believing they aire the dh'ief obstacle to order. The operatives at Riga, have presumed, but the railway , strike continues, as does also the looting of Jews' shops.

The troops at Tiflis attacked 150 railway wreckers, fcillfng eiaJht. The Batouiß-JSlatais Tin© is greatly damaged, seven bridges 'being also destroyed. - ( . . The re-dntroduction of legal conditions in Finland, and the granting of universal suffrage, has 'been hailed with delight. Orders is now being maintained, despite the efforts of the ultra-Social-ists. The strike has ended, and traffic is resutaing. A 'bomb thrown into the ■apartments of itlie commander of the Novogievsk foaitiress 'killed' the toamonander and wounded his wife and children.

The authorities of many villages are quelling the peasamitß' anti-Semitic riots. Received November 8, 8.11 a.<m. • ST. PETERSBURG, November 7. Tiflis on 'Saturday was a pandemonium, and a scene of butchery; • The Cossacks icommitted many ferocious acts, shooting fleeing women and'children in arms^ and kfUling sphbol children like sparrows. They plundered the- hotels, expelling the European residents. Civil war As raging in the-Caucasus, which da practically, isolated. Railways, ■bridges, and telegraphs are destroyed in many places. ProYooa/teuTs , are secretly organising a fQuassaci*e of Jews at Warsay. The Jews lare terribly excited.

Great detachments of troops with artillery 'are encamped in the squares. WASHINGTON, November 7.

President Roosevelt has decided that no action is possible at present which would be of any benefit tt^o the Jews in Russia.

Count de Witte, telegraphing to Jacob Schiff, of New York, states that the Russian Government is horrified at the massacres of Jews, and adds: " You know that 1 do not sympathise with such savage outibreaks. .All I can do to stop them is 'being done, but the country is so unsettled that the local authorities ■'are often powerless." LONDON, 'November 7. The Chief Ralbbi, Dr Hermann Adler, has received telegrams from Russia, stating that many Jewish communities have been entirely destroyed, and the position is awffrl. The 'English Jews are conc«rtittg measures <for relliefv—;