THE UNREST IN RUSSIA.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12282, 28 August 1905, Page 7

THE UNREST IN RUSSIA.

•■ ■. ■■' .4 ... ;' - :;•.- ■ ■; WHOLESALE ARRESTS. TERRIBLE OUTRAGES BY . PEASANTS. MARTIAL LAW AT WARBAW. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.. ■ ST. PETERSBURG, August 25. Cossacks surrounded a Socialist meeting at Dlutow, near Lodz, and arrested 380 people. A further 450 were arrested at Lodz. During a fair at the village of Lihovka, in the provinoe of Verkhuedneprovsk, an immense crowd of peasants attacked the merchants, pillaged their goods, and' massacred some of them. They mutilated the bodies by gouging out eyes and cutting off ears. Martial law has been proclaimed in the whole of Warsaw. Government stiikers blew up a. bridge over the Vistula, near Radow. .

SAILORS COURTMARTIALLED.

DISAFFECTED SOLDIERS. FURTHER SANGUINARY DISTURBANCES. (Received August 27th, 4.19 p.m.) _ ST. PETERSBURG, August 26. As the sequel to the naval revolt, 137 sailors were oourtmartiallod at Litxau. Eight were sentenced to be shot, and nineteen to imprisonment with bard labour. An inspection of the barracks at Lodz levealed the fact that the Clonoski regiment was in possession of many Jewish-Polish proclamations. One hundred and fifty Polish and Jewish soldiers were subsequently transferred to Lanza, the seat of the regimental depot.

Sanguinary disturbances have occurred at Siedlce, and two dynamite explosions at Sononice, in connection with the strike, in protest against the Czar's manifesto. •

BLACK SEA TRADE PARALYSED.

A THREATENED FAMINE. (Received 'August 28th/ 0.59 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, August 27. The grain ■ export trade at the Russian Black Sea ports is paralysed, tthe Government retaining the railway rolling stock. Wheat and rye are dearer at Odessa than in London. It is expected that the bulk of the crops wluoh have accumulated alongside the railways is required for the faminestricken districts.