RUSSIAN SITUATION

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 196, 17 August 1906, Page 5

RUSSIAN SITUATION

ANARCHY IN POLAHD. IBWWY POLICE MURDERED, SLAUGHTER OF REVOLUTIONISTS. (By Cable.—Pzess Associatioßi—Copyright.) ST. PETERSBURG, August 16. Reports from Poland indicate that big slaughters of police and soldiers have occurred at Warsaw and Lodz. At Warsaw the revolutionists sallied into the streets in force and killed 17 policemen, four gendarmes, seven infantrymen, in all 28 men, and .wounded 17 policemen and soldiers. The troops were called out, and these fired volleys among the revolutionists, and then attacked with the bayonet. In all 15 revolutionists were killed and 130 wounded. Two bombs were also thrown into the Chlodna-street police station at Warsaw yesterday, and two policemen and an infantryman were wounded. At Lodz three bombs wrecked the police station and killed a policeman, a Cossack and three infantrymen. Infantry then, occupied the adjoining streets, and one hundred arrests were made. Later infantry patrols fired volleys in all directions in four streets and killed two persons and wounded 21 severely and many slightly. Traffic was suspended, and the shops closed- Another policeman was murdered in the evening. MORE ATTACKS ON POLICE. A REVOLUTIONARY VENDETTA. (Received 8.34 a.m.)

ST. PETERSBURG, August 16. Further revolutionary attacks are reported from Poland. Five police were shot dead at Plock, near Warsaw. A bomb ■was thrown at Radom police station, killing one person. It now appears that the massacre at Warsaw was an act of revenge on the part of the revolutionaries for the arrest of a hundred Socialists. LONDON. August 16. The revolutionists in the great Northeast Russian province of Vologda have shot and killed the chief of police and the chief of the ruml police. The assassins escaped. i' COSSACKS REFUSE POLICE % DUTY. (Received 7.31 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, August 16. The Cossacks at .Tiflis, capital of Transcaucasia, have now refused to perform police duty. A large number of them have in consequence been placed under arrest.