DISORDER IN RUSSIA.
THE BAKU RIOTS.
AN ARMENIAN'S HEROISM.
DEFENDS HIS HOUSE AGAINST TARTARS.
By Telegraph.—Press Association —Copyright. St. Petersburg, March 16. A resident of Baku says that during the first disturbances at Baku, between the Armenians and Tartars, the latter besieged a large house occupied by M. Adamoff, a tradesman.
M. Adamoff defended the house from the balcony, and before he fell, had shot 33 Tartars.
Immediately after M. Adamoff had been killed, the Tartars set fire to petroleum in the doorway, and suffocated the inmates of the house, of whom there were nineteen.
RISING OF THE PEASANTS.
SIXTY DISTRICTS AFFECTED.
St. Petersburg}, March 16.
The rising of the peasants has extended to sixty districts in European Russia. The Minister for the Interior, M. Boulyguinc, has informed the Tsar that if the decision of the War Council to mobilise 300,000 troops for Manchuria is persisted in, he will not guarantee the tranquility of the country.
ORDERS SENT ABROAD.
St. Petersburg, March 16.
The Russian War Council has given order?, to firms in Austria and Germany for largo quantities of shrapnel. It has been found necessary to send the orders abroad, owing to the strikes having caused the closing of the Russian factories.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12818, 18 March 1905, Page 5
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