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Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 48, 25 August 1905, Page 5

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«. RUSSIA'S INTERNAL AFFAIRS. o- • WHOLESALE ARRESTS MADE. UNTOLD HARDSHIPS. FRESH DISTURBANCES REPORTED. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received August 25, 8.46 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 24th August. Four employers at Warsaw were murdered in the street on one night. Colonel Meyer, Chief of Police, does nob shoot revolutionists like his predecessor did, but arrests hundreds nightly. All the prisons and several barracks are filled with prisoners, who are suffering untold hardships from overcrowding, hunger, and brutal treatment. Grave disturbances have taken place in various parts of Courland (a Baltic province). Yesterday incendiarism, pillage, and murders were reported. The Tsar's portraits were destroyed in public buildings, and farmers' houses were fired. THE DUMA SCHEME. INDIGNATION IN ODESSA. LEADING LIBERALS EXILED. ST. PETERSBURG, 24th August. Theie are 5000 persons who have votes with rental qualification under the Duma scheme in St. Petersburg, 12,000 in Moscow, and 7000 in Odessa. The indignation manifested in Odessa is intense, because with half a million inhabitants the town is allowed only one' deputy, the same as Kirsk, with 50,000 inhabitants. Tho organisation of an electoral campaign has everywhere been forbidden. The Provincial Governors are imprisoning and exiling many leading Liberal voters. Officials announce that they have been entrusted with electoral arrangements. The Zemstvos and municipalities have not been allowed to co-operate. AMENDMENTS ADVOCATED. (Received August 25, 7.37 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 24th August. The St. Petersburg municipality has adopted a resolution similar to that passed at Moscow. CENSOR AT WORK. (Received August 25, 8.25 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 24th August. Tho censor would not allow the publication of the Moscow municipality's resolutions. The resolution passed at Moscow was as follows: — "That the Tsar's noble purpose could be realised only under conditions guaranteeing freedom of speech, of the press, of meeting, and of union, and the inviolability of the person." The resolution also recommended an amendment to the Duma scheme in order to restore tranquillity, and added, "The Duma- should be based on universal suffrago with full legislative right." RAILWAY ACCIDENT. ST. PETERSBURG, 24th August. Soldiers who are driving the trains on tho Vistula railway report that at Irkutsk a coupling broke and wrecked a military traih. Thirty-two were killed and forty-eight injured. / OFFICERS ARRESTED. PARIS, 24th August. Advices from Moscow state that twenty-one officers who met to discuss the Duma scheme were arrested. THEAUSTRAUAN 6RIGKETERS MATCH AGAINST KENT. COLONIALS AT THE WICKETS. [tress association.! (Received August 25, 11.41 a.m.) LONDON, 24th August. The Australian cricketers began a match against Kent at Canterbury to-day in delightful weather and on a fast wicket. Three thousand peoplo witnessed the game. Following are the teams :—: — Australia.— Darling, Hill, Gehrs, Cotter, Trumper, Armstrong, Noblo, Kelly, Hopkins, Howell, and M'Leod. Kent.— Marsham, Dillon, S. Day, A. Day, Mason, Humphreys, Seymour, Hearne, Huish, Fairseivice, and Blythe. Darling won the toss, and sent the County team into the field. Trumper played a fine innings. He hit eight fourers. Noblo and Darling, while together, largely increased the score. Tho former was at the wickets a couplo of hours. At times he was very aggressive, hitting nine fourers — three in ono over. Darling, wlißn he had made 69, was missed twice in one over. He hit seventeen fourers. Following, are tho scores: — ' AUSTRALIANS.— First Innings. Trumper, 1.b.w., b Mason 59 Hopkins, c A. f Day, b Blytho ... 11 Hill, b Mason 21 Armstrong, Rt Huish, b Humphreys... 5 Noble, st. Huish, b Blytho 70 Darling, c 8. T\iy, b Heaine 114 Gehrs, c Huish* b Blythe 0 M'Leod, not out 67 Kelly, c Iluish, b Mason ... >.. 12 Total for eight wickets ... ... 367