WHOLESALE ARRESTS IN RUSSIA.
— —♦ — — FOURTEEN HUNDRED PEOPLE EXECUTED. STATE OF SIEGE IN MANY TOWNS. '[press association.] (Received February 26, 8,42 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 25th Fob. A state of siege has been prodnimod in sixty-two places, nnd a minor state of siege in thirty-four places in Russia. Ten thousand peoplo hn^e boon arrested, nnd of theso fourteen hundred have been summarily executed. At the capital twonty workmen's cheap restaurants have be'on closed. ANTI-SEMITIC AGITATION. (Received February 26, &.45 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 25th Fob. There are threo hundred nnd fifty-four nnti''Somitic agitators at Kioff, whioh is the headquarters of the movement for the extermination of Jows In Southern Russia. The Petrovsky 'Monastery and Madame Novikoff, a wealthy landowner, have contributed £2600 nnd £1600 respectively to the agitation funds. MUZZLING THE PRESS. (Received February 26, 8.45 a.m.) ST, PETERSBURG, 25th Feb. During the month ending on tho 7th, st)venty<elght Russian newspapers woro suspended nnd fifty-eight editors arrested,
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Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 48, 26 February 1906, Page 7
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154WHOLESALE ARRESTS IN RUSSIA. Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 48, 26 February 1906, Page 7
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