RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Mataura Ensign, 17 September 1906, Page 2

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

A.N UNFORTUNATE GIRL. By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Per United Press Association. GENEVA, Sept. JO. M. Midler's murderess is the only daughter oi General Lconlictr, who foiig'ht in the Mnnchurian i'um|>iiit>]>. fie and his wife, who are, intensely grieved, have arrived in Switzerland to visil their daughter. ADDING TO TJIE BLACK LIST. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 13. It is estimated that there have been ten executions daily in this city since summary courts-martini were established. M. Masuriii, leader of the social revolutionaries' lighting organisation, Was hanged at Moscow yesterday. Jle was one of the ringleaders in the bunk robbery on March, "ill, and spent the proceeds in the purchase of arms mid ammunition. Two were court-murtialled anil shot at Riga for engaging in pillage. A crowd of peasants in Grodno were trying to rescue prisoners when the police lirod volleys, killing eight and wounding sixty. PECULATION. Treasury officials at Brcstliolvsk liave disappeared with roubles of (ho town's money. SUDDEN DEATH OF TREPOI-T. Obituary-General Tivpoll. The cause of death was apoplexy. (General Tivpoff was the tool of the Russian bureaucracy. lie had a meteoric career, 'having only come into prominence some two years ago, since when he had been advanced from posl> to post, until he was practically dictator at St. Petersburg.) KUSSI.VS PIE-CRUST PROMISES. Kceeivcd Sept. 17, S.SO u.iii. LONDON, Sept. l(i. Advices from Pokin stale that Russia has announced that she is unable to evacuate Northern Manchuria before April, owing to internal troubles. JAI -A X 1--.S JO COM PLAI NTS. TOKIO, Sepi. )li ; The Japanese Press complain that Russia has opened no places to trade in Northern Manchuria according to treaty, while Japan has opened six in Southern Manchuria. WHOLESALE EXODUS Or' JEWS. | Received Sept. 17, S.JS a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. lti. Russia is grunting passports freely to facilitate the emigration of Jews. Twenty thousand recently left f.,r Bielostok : 500 families loft'Kicli during the past week ; uud H'.OO Jews sailed from LUnm in a single day.