THE RUSSIAN REVOLT.

Evening Star, Issue 12585, 17 August 1905, Page 6

THE RUSSIAN REVOLT.

Press - Amociaticm By Telegxapii Copyright. MURDER OF JEWS. AXnHOSUnES*TAKE NO HEED. ‘ ST. PETEBSBDRG, August 16. AntbJswish riots hove takem place at BlDastck. The authorities are passive, and there is much bloodshed. Forty . Jems were buried yesterday, thousands of citizens following the bodies to the cemetery. A PEASANT RISING. MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS DESTROYED. LAND-OWNERS KILLED. ST. PETERSBURG, August 16. The peasants in the Otrarland district sacked twenty-two municipal buildings and destroyed the documents and conscription lists. They took all the money belonging to the State. The peasants in Lavonia have invaded many estates, and kilted three land-owners. DANGEROUS BELONGINGS. ST. PETERSBURG, August 16. (Received August 17, at 9.3 a-m.) The court-martial now sitting at Odessa sentenced two young men and a girl to twenty and thirteen, years’ penal servitude for keeping explosives. THE PRESS LAWS. The censure laws which cripple the Russian Press have recently been made more ridiculous than ever. Even advertisements must every one pass the censor. You cannot advertise a house to let, a lost dbg, or a horse for sate, until due sanction has been obtained from the local authorities. The authorities have now decided that an advertisement must bo sanctioned by the police officer of the district in which the would-be advertiser resides. It must be a very keen advertiser indeed who will spend an hoar of two in the poisonous holes which serve as district polio© offices, even in wealthy Moecow>, waiting his turn to get the magic stamp imprinted, for a consideration, on the announcement of a canary bird for sale or exchange!