RUSSIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13287, 20 September 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE SIEDLGE MASSACRES.

PETITION TO KING EDWARD

REPRESENTATION TO THE TSAR, COURTS-MARTIAL COUNTER- . MANDED. By Telegraph.— Association.—Copyright. (Received September 19. 11.9 p.m.) London, September 19. A deputation of Jews resident in London has presented to King Edward a petition asking His Majesty to intercede with the Tsar in favour of the Jews at Siedlcc. In response to the deputation the Permanent Under - Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Sir Charles Hardinge) has telegraphed to the British Ambassador at St. Petersburg (Sir Arthur Nicholson) in regard to the matter, and also concerning reports of preparations for massacres of Jews at Warsaw and elsewhere. • , ■ (Received September 19, 11.55 p.m.) St. Petersburg, September 19. The Premier (M. Stolypin) has informed a deputation of Jews that he has telegraphed to the local authorities that it is not derirable to summarily try the Jews arrested at Siedlce. St. Petersburg, September 18. Two hundred persons who have been arrested at haphazard at Siftdlce, in Poland, are to be tried before a court-martial composed of the officers implicated in the recent massacre. Representatives of the British Jews are appealing to the Russian Government to stop the holding of courts-martial under such conditions, and to thus prevent " a terrible crime." , ODESSA COURT-MARTIAL. St. Petersburg, September 19. The socialists at Odessa have issued a proclamation in which they state their intention to kill three officials for every " patriot" executed by drumhead court-martial. The first of the victims are to be the military judges, the Governor, and the Commander-in-Chief. POLICE MEASURES IN '■ WARSAW.

SEARCHING THE PEOPLE. A STOPPAGE OF TRAFFIC. (Received September 19. 11.9 p.m.) St. Petersburg, September 19. The whole of the traffic in one district of Warsaw' yesterday was brought to a standstill for a time, in the streets by troops and on the river by gunboats. The object was to enable the soldiers to search the people for evidences of being revolutionaries. No less than 900 of the inhabitants were thus searched. THE SVEABOIIG MUTINY. SEVENTEEN SAILORS SHOT. ; (Received September 19. 11.9 \'.m.) St. Petersburg, September 19. For taking part in the Sveaborg mutiny seventeen sailors were sentenced to death and immediately shot yesterday. Eighty others were sentenced to penal servitude or to service with disciplinary battalions. Eleven were acquitted. THE TSAR'S CRUISE. FEARS FOR HIS SAFETY. (Received September 19, 11.35 p.m.) St. Petersburg, September 19. The Tsar, who is now on a cruise with the Tsarina and his children, had intended to return to Peterhof to be present at the funeral of General Trepoff. It is now announced that that intention has been abandoned, and that the cruise vill be continued. This decision is interpreted as connected with fears of an attempt on the life of the Tsar if he returned at present. St. Petersburg, September 18. A number of the servants in the palace of the Tsar have been arrested for showing active sympathy with the revolutionaries.