INTERNAL RUSSIA.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1715, 11 January 1905, Page 31

INTERNAL RUSSIA.

PRISONS SET ABLAZE. BRUTAL VIOLENCE OF THE POLICE, ST. PETERSBURG, January G. The Chief of Police was fatally wounded near Warsaw. Rioters at Kharkcff set fire to the prisons. Six strikers and a Cossack were killed and many wounded in a conflict with tlie authorities at Baku, on the Caspian. Sea, ST. PETERSBURG, January 7.

Owing to l the brutal violence on the part of the police in quelling a demontration by students, the Moscow Municipality has suppressed the vote for tile maintenance of the gendarmerie until the perpetrators are suitably punished. ST. PETERSBURG, January 8. The Holy Synod has addressed a communication to the Czar, protesting against the ‘’insensate machinations’’ of certain nobles in attempting to induce the Czar to abrogate some of his power. The Procurator-General (M. Pobiedo>nostaff) recognises that the Czar possesses all rights save that of violation of his oath to preserve the Autocracy and the Orthodoxy. j LONDON. January 8. Nihilists in Switzerland are preparing a million copies of pamphlets advising Russians not to proceed to the Far East. Nino prominent leaders declare that a general revolt will begin in a few weeks at Moscow, then at Warsaw, Kieff and St. Petersburg. A manifesto signed by 117 literary, political and .scientific Russians, and published at Stuttgart and Zurich, narrates the cruel knouting of female students and other girls not connected with the demonstration on December 11th. LONDON. January 9. The “Daily Mail’s” correspondent at St. Petersburg says:—The public in the provinces were kept ignorant of Port Arthur’s fall for days. The censor at

Moscow' altered the leading articles in newspapers, wherein the capitulation was bewailed, substituting the word “frost” for “fall.”