Arrests In Warsaw.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7972, 8 February 1905, Page 2

Arrests In Warsaw.

The Assault On The Consuls,

Affair Considered Closed.

Press Association —Copyright

London, Yesterday Seven hundred arrests have been made in Warsaw.

Two hundred persons were expelled from gymnasia for daring to petition the directors in favour of the introduction of the Poliaii language. They will be permanently excluded from Government schools, and will have to serve for three years in the ranks instead of a year as volunteers.

The Daily Telegraph's St. Petersburg correspondent states the ukase issued by M. Yermoloff, Minister for Agriculture, directing the preparation of a scheme for internal reforms, and, also, an inquiry into the massacre, has been shelved

Major Napier, military attache at the British Embassy, has concluded an inquiry into the outrage on the Consuls at Warsaw. Captain Murray declares the attacks were such as might have happened to anybody in the streets. The incident is considered to be closed.

The Daily Mail states one hundred thousand workmen at Sosnowice have struck, and are well armed.

There has been fresh fighting and bloodshed at Kadom (Poland). ' Old and uniate believers (Greek united), at Siedloe (Poland), burnt three orthodox churches.