THE RUSSIAN TURMOIL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LII, Issue 9187, 6 September 1906, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN TURMOIL.

VENGEANCE EXTRAORDINARY. (PBKSS AfiHOCMTION 1 ] (Received September 5, 10.42 p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, September 5. A policeman was shot at Wenden, Lavonia. A punitive column demanded the , surrender of the murderer. The people they did not know him, as he was .a stranger. . Forty->nin© were thereupon arrested, despite their protestation of innocence. The whole male population was summoned to the scene of the murder, , where the commander of the column selected two old men amd a youth and shot all three. He announced that in the event , of another political - murder, nine would be shot, and in the event ' of the third, 27 would have to answer. t REVOLUTIONARIES SENTENCED. ST.. PETERSBURG,: September 5. , A•• couKtmartial tat Riga sentenced 24 (revolutionary leaders to hard labor, ranging from two to 15 yeans. . PROJECTED REFORMS. \ ST. PETERSBURG, September 5. The. Russian Government declare that they^' intend to execute the' agrarian reforms on- the basis of absolute inviolability of private ownership of land. They also sanctioned Jews establishing elementary and secondary l schools. '