MURDER IN RUSSIA.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 41, 12 November 1907, Page 5

MURDER IN RUSSIA.

THE DEATH TOLL. CRIME IN THE SOUTH. ■ BT TELEGRAM—ritESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. St. Petersburg, November 10. Burning and pillaging on county estates aiul the murdering of landlords are beio,* carried on throughout the Khorson district to an intolerable extent. Many shops and offieo robberies aro reported daily in the largo cities. The Government of Kherson, a great grain district bordering on the Black Sea, includes that hotlied of unrest, Odessa, also Kherson, Nikolaieff, Otc-hi :il;ofF, and Tiraspol. An attempt has been made to tell the story of tho Russian .revolution in figures, which embrace the period between the announcement of the Duma, in February, 1905, and the sccond dissolution, last June. It is stated that during this time 41,020 'suffered through the terrorism regime and the reaction against terrorism, of which 19,14+ were 'killed, 2381 wero executed or lynched, 1350 committed selfmurder, 20,701 were wounded, and 441 were the objects of fruitless assaults. Tho last figure seems surprisingly r-mall,' and, in general, those statistics must liavo a more or loss casual character. The total is thus distributed by territories: —Russia prcper, 20,Gi1; Caucasus, 7394; Finland and Baltic provinces, 4920; Poland, 4385; Western provinces, 3048; Siberia and Central Asia, 22G8. Collisions with military and police are credited with 12,953 casualties; antiSemitic riots with 79G9; anti-Aimenian riots, 4510; Black Gang attacks on others than Jews, 2778; and military and naval risings with 2193 victims. Agrarian, disturbances are | credited with only 533 acts of-violence against human life; lynch justice claimed 412; intcrnccino warfare, among workingmen, 298. '