DISTURBED RUSSIA,

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 73, 26 March 1906, Page 5

DISTURBED RUSSIA,

THE DUMA ELECTIONS. (By CabJe.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 8.27 a.nx} LONDON, March 25. The St. Petersburg correspondent of Renter's Agency state? that the Duma elections are now in full swing, and that order prevails everywhere, VICTIMS OF THE DISORDERS. SOME TERRIBLE FIGURES. • Received 8.27 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, March 25. The official reports show that 14,130 were killed and 19,524 were wounded-, in the Russian disorders in 1905. The Russian newspapers assume that the Government has minimised the figurese. HOW SUSPECTS ARE TREATED. (Received 8.27 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, March 25. Shocking revelations of the cruelty of the Russian authorities towards their prisoners are constantly reported. A fire in a Moscow prison hospital revealed the fact that political suspects were chained to their beds by iron rings fixed round their ankles. POISONING OTTTRAGE IN POLAND. 11 GIRLS EXPECTED TO DIE. (Received 8.27 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, MaTch 25. An unknown miscreant at Pabianiee, in Poland, poisoned 34 spinning-girls for refusig to strike. The floors of their workroom were strewn with, a poisonous powder, which tiie girls inhaled. Eleven of them are expected to die. SECOND EDITOR IMPRISONED. ST. PETERSBURG, March 24. M. Alexis Sovrin, editor of the "Russ," has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment in a fortress for a Press offence.