THE REVOLT IN RUSSIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 13948, 3 January 1906, Page 7

THE REVOLT IN RUSSIA.

RELIEF FOR THE FAMINE- , STRICKEN. THE SLAUGHTER AT MOSCOW TWENTY THOUSAND PERSONS KILLED. United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. ST PETERSBURG, January 1. Count do Witte is devoting £650,000 to the alleviation of tho famine sufferers. General Stackelberg, who was captured by the rebels at Riga, has been released. A girl of eighteen yeans commanded the strongest barricade. In Alcscow a shell hit an. almshouse, killing eight women. A thousand Moscow rebels were, arrested, and it is estimated that twenty thousand were killed in Moscow. The rebels at Prokboaff Factory surrendered, after most of them had escaped. The losses to property arc immense, and M. Systin, the owner of the largest printing works in the city, is suing the Government for £300,000, declaring that tire troops destroyed his property without provocation. A GENERAL INSURRECTION MOVEMENT. RAMMING A MILITARY TRAIN. ■ST PETERSBURG, January 1. The revolutionary societies in St Petersburg have issued a manifesto; admitting the failure of the risings, a.n<jj have decided to suspend the order for a general insurrection at the beginning of the new year. The Government announces that it will use all means to crush any attempts at a general rising. Because some returning Manchurian troops refused to revolt, the rebels at Vileisk sent a locomotive full speed against the military train, wrecking it and injuring a number of soldiers. SEIZURE OF BOMBS. (Received January 2, 9.18 p.m.) ST PETERSBURG, January 2. The police at Warsaw seized a Jewish tenement. On© loaded and sixteen, unloaded bombs,, and a quantity of explosives and revolvers were seized. The inmates fled. Numerous arrests were made in adjacent tenements. THE RISING IN THE BALTIC PROVINCES. ST PETERSBURG, January 2. Defeating four thousand Letts, a military expedition, under Prince Orloff, captured four insurgent villages. General Solluhub, the new Governor of the Baltic Provinces, has issued a proclamation, summoning the population to divulge the usurpers’ names, and surrender arms, otherwise they will be court martialled, and the village communities transported to the north.