CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. — COPYRIGHT.] * DISTURBANCES IN RUSSIA.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 34, 9 August 1905, Page 5

CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. — COPYRIGHT.] * DISTURBANCES IN RUSSIA.

PROCESSION AT BEVAL DISPERSED. COSSACKS' WHIPS AT WORK. [I'HESS ASSOCIATION.! (Received August 9. 7.16 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, Bth August. A workers' procession of several thousand people at Reval (a seaport on a bay of the Gulf of Finland), which "was carrying red flags, was dispersed after attacking the police -with revolvers and stones. The Cossacks, with whips, injured many after their efforts to spare the women and children, who were placed in front of the procession to prevent any Cossack charge. BOMB OUTRAGES. PRECAUTIONS IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Bth August. * Placards have been posted at Homel, in Southern Russia, announcing that as Jews of the lowest class have twice thrown bombs at the Chief of Police, Cossacks preceding the Chief's carriage whenever he is driving in the streets have been ordered to shoot such men at sight if they are within fifty paces of the carriage. Twenty thousand people demonstrated at HeMngfors, in Finland, against the proposal to transfer the trial of political offences from local authorities to a Russian Military Court. THE FAMINE. ST. PETERSBURG, Bth August. There are indications that the famine in Russia this year will equal in severity that of 1891. ,