CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT.]

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 49, 26 August 1905, Page 5

CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT.]

RIOTS IN RUSSIA. 6 WHOLESALE ARREST OF SOCIALISTS. • MASSACRE OF MERCHANTS.^ GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS WRECKED. • [rRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received August 26, 8.36 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 25th August. Cossacks surrounded a sociattab meeting at Dlutow, near Lodz, and arrested three hundred and eighty people. Four hundred and fifty more were arrested at Lodz. During the holding of a fair in the village of Lihovka, in the province of Vcrkhnednyeprovsk, an immense crpwd of peasants attacked the merchants, and pillaged their goods. Some of the men were massacred, their eyes being gouged out and ears cut off. Rioters in twenty-sis communes in the Courland district wrecked Government buildings and burned lists of conscripts prepared for purposes of mobilisation. A largo- forest and a farm homestead were also set üblazo. The fires caused damage estimated at millions of roubles. The majority of the landowners have taken refuge in Germany and Sweden.' MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED. (Received August 26, 8.47 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 25th August. Martial law has been proclaimed throughout the whole of Warsaw. Government strikers blew up a bridge over the Vistula River, near Radom. THE PROPOSED DUMA. ST. PETERSBURG, 25th August. A report submitted to the Vladimir Provincial Zemstvos Commission — to theeffect .that the scheme for the establishment of a Duma did not fulfil any of the desires' of the Zemstvos — was adopted amid cheers.