RIOTS AND MURDER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8938, 3 July 1905, Page 2

RIOTS AND MURDER.

; NEW POLICE SCHEME. PANIC IN ODESSA UNABATED. _ (Received July -3, 8.31 a.m.) v ST. PETERSBURG, July 2. An officer at Kirsk station,' in consequence of the impertinence of a drunken soldier, cut him' dbim with a sword. A mob collected and pound petroleum, on the railway carriage, the officer replying with revolver shots~until-he was burned > to death. — - ' - , Cossacks, with infantry and machine' — guns, guard Libau against the rioters .who, - with the exception^of *200, fled to the forest. : > 'T v "~-w~*..w_^ ■ -, The Czar provides funds for QeneraT" Trepoff's scheme to .subdivide Russia into -carefully organised police districts with an enormously increased' police idrcer~ . The panic at Odessa is unabated. ._ The^ British" Consul .chartered a vessel to take British) subjects. •> • i The conflagration of the town continued - until Friday evening.- , -- . Coast defence batteries are stationed in Odessa streets, dominating the harbor. BAffLIIN^ROGRESS. EURTHER MUTINIES REPORTED. ' ; (Received July 2, 4.36 p.m./ _ - > LONDON, July 1. ' . The Times' St. Petersburg - correspondentetatejr that 'telegrams reported to nave lieen received last night announce' that a battle is progressing outside Odessa. They add that the crews of several" of Admiral Kruger's ships mutinied. No official confirmation has-been .received. THE SITUATION CRITICAL. (Received July 1, 1.40 -p-in.) . : — ...."- LONDON. July 1, .. A private telegram from Odessa states that a second battleship,, supposed i<& be . the Georgi Pobudonosteff, mutinied-, There •to *be no possibility of the early resumption of buaineaif and -the - position is undoubtedly critical. : '-r- •-, . Reports fronvother spur6c« state that tho eailotß at— Kronstadt, .mutinietl, .objecting "to futigue'duty-ashofe. >, They. JkilU?d two efficere and wounded six others. „ h .,, kv