EXCITEMENT IN THE CAUCASUS

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2032, 16 July 1885, Page 4

EXCITEMENT IN THE CAUCASUS

A i-ETTm from Tiflis received in Vienna, atatM tbat the recent closing of the Armenian schools in the Caucasus has rodied angry excitement throughout the country, and led to some serious riots In several places the students of both sexes resisted the poli<o who came to clo»« the schools. A (Jhuchi tho police and the student 1 ! came to blows, and the foVmer were worsted. At Alexandropol thy students drove away the police, »nd reinforcements of Cossacks had to be fatohed befoie the students could be diWodged. Order was not restored apt* 'the. time wh«n the letter was disffatchrd, And irioro disturbances were apprehended. At Erivan M Uadg nifcpti, while closing tho acbools was asMriifed by a mob and nearly lynched. At Tiflis several of the school sistcis fell ill of grief on losing their situations and prospects. One committed suicide at CUuchi, and two other* died. These two ladies were graduates of German univeisities. The Rusbiau Government is icpoitcd to be doing its utmost to suppress the signs of public itritation, bqt hitheito without any success. People h^yojHto arrested in great numbers for making notfty demonstrations against the doling of the dchools, and others having been punished for refusing to hoist bunt ing outside their houses on the occasion ofrltufsian festival*. All this made Princn'DondoukofTto unpopular that at ft banquet which took place lately at Tiflis, tie gu#»tn, among whom was a number of MuSßntm'ana and Georgians, refused to make any response when hia health was proposed. It seems, however, that the Prince, who is in the habit of going to spcud the summer at Gadior, will be unable to cfo so this year, as none of the wealthy Armenians, who own the best houses in the locality will either offer him hospitality or consent to let him a residence. In previous yeais the Prince had always a mansion placed voluntarily at his disposal.