A REIGN OF TERROR.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 833, 4 September 1906, Page 3

A REIGN OF TERROR.

Press Association—Copyright. St. Petersburg, Yesterday. Two thousand people were arrested at Warsaw during searches on Friday night. Tbe prisoners were brutally beaten with whips and butts of rifles. Extraordinary Murder. By a Young Woman. A Terrible Mistake. Received September 4,12.23 a.m. Geneva, Yesterday. A startling incident has ooourred at a fashionable hotel at Jungfrau Interlaken. During lunch a Russian lady, aged twenty-two, the supposed wife of a man giving the name of Stafford, from Stockholm, fired a revolver and killed Muller, a wealthy Parisian. Tbe bullets narrowly missed an American family. The murderess, a revolutionary, declared that she had been ordered to kill Durnovo, a former Minister of the Interior, and added that the vicim was Durnovo ! passing under the name of Muller. The hotel pr pnetor deolares that Muller was the viotitn of a terrible mistake. Torture and Murder. Polloe Quitting the Service. Received September 4,12.7 a.m. St. Petersburg, Yesterday. Troops attaoked a house in Libau whence shots were fired whioh wounded a polioeman and four oivilians. They killed two and wounded thirty, and also arrested two men and twenty-nine women. London, Yesterday. The Telegraph's St Petersburg correspondent relates revolting cruelties in the Baltic provinces and the coldblooded torture and murder of some of M. Stolypin's adherents. The police in many distriots of Russia are quitting the sorvice on the ground that the Government is unable to proteot them. Seoret partisans of the revolution have secured Government appointments in some places in succession to the bureaucrats.

Assassinations Continued. Polios Shot Down. Beoeived Septembe 3, 9 43 p.m. St. Petersburg, Yesterday. Two quickfirers, and another gun were stolen from torpedoers at Sebastopol. Prinoe Shokoveky, th 3 Government's representative on the directorate of the Official Telegraph Aganoy, at St. Petersburg, who was iDJarod at M. Stolypin's Villa, has succumbed to his injuries. A hundred and thirty seven mutinous sappers at Irkutsk were arrested after expelling their offioers. M. Bemezoff, President of the Tula District Court, was assassinated. The assailant esoaped. A bomb was thrown at policemen in the Square at Grodno. It wounded a dczan, inoludmg a woman. Further polioe have been shot by revolvers at Warsaw. /