UNREST IN RUSSIA.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1746, 23 August 1905, Page 52

UNREST IN RUSSIA.

POLISH POLICE OFFICER . WOUNDED.

CONSPIRATORS ARRESTED. ST. PETERSBURG. August 14. The police raided an inn at Tiflis, Transcaucasia, and arrested a number of conspirators. The officials found seven bombs and a stock of dynamite, also the death sentence of the Chief of the Police signed by the Committee of the Social Revolutionary party. A bomb was thrown at and wounded the Chief of the Police at Radom (Poland). ST. PETERSBURG, August 15. Owing to the threatened famine through the failure of the crops in various parts of Russia. M. Kokovteeff,. Minister for Finance, has ordered the prevention of excessive export of grain. This implies prudent restriction, not prohibition, of export. ’ ST. PETERSBURG, August 15. The Governor of Warsaw has ordered the detention of Sienkiewicz, the wellknown novelist, in liis domicile for signing a public protest against the Russification of Polish schools. ST- PETERSBURG, August 16. Anti-Jewish riots have occurred at Bielostock, on the Polish frontier. The authorities were passive. There was much bloodshed. Forty Jews were buried yesterday. Thousands followed the remains to the cemetery. ST. PETERSBURG, August 17. The bloodshed at Rielostok (near

Poland) recently, as the result of whichi as many as forty Jews were ia one day, arose from a bomb being; thrown at two soldiers from a Jewish, house, after a military demonstration of repression. A detachment entered the house, and massacred every inmate. PEASANTS” DEMANDS. IMPORTANT CONFERENCE AT MOSCOW. ST. PETERSBURG, August 17. A conference was held at Moscow of two hundred delegates from all parts of Russia representing the Peasants* Union. Resolutions were passed making the following demands : Universal suffrage, to apply to both sexes. A regular Parliament, with power to initiate legislation, control the national finances, and supervise the administration of the country’s affairs. The utilisation of monastery lands for purposes of peasant proprietorship. Compulsory, free elementary education, with non-compulsory religious instruction, and the secularisation of the schools. The whole movement is described as a universal upheaval, beyond the control of the authorities. BUILDINGS SACKED AND ESTATES INVADED. ST. PETERSBURG, August 16. Peasants in the Courland district (one of the Baltic provinces) sacked twenty-two municipal buildings, destroyed documents and conscription lists, and took away all money belonging to tike State. Peasants in Lanonia invaded many estates, and killed three landowners. LONG SENTENCES. ST. PETERSBURG, August 16. A court-martial at Odessa has sentenced two young men and a girl to twenty and thirteen years’ penal servitude for keeping explosives. THE CZAR’S SAILORS. WARSHIPS’ CREWS ON THE VERGE OF MUTINY. ST. PETERSBURG, August 18. The crews of warships at Lilbau are on the verge of mutiny. An outbreak is certain if the Odessa mutineers are <oX6Cll‘t*6<l. An officer of one of the warships at Riga, who has been ordered to be in readiness, declares that there is disaffection among his own men. The Moscow garrison, which is encamped at Hodinskoo, near the city, has been ordered to remain there, owing to there being dangerous ferment among the regiments. Artillery has been trained on certain regiments whose allegiance is suspected. ARMENIAN CHURCH PROPERTY. ST. PETERSBURG, August 18. The Czar, reverting to former conditions, has restored Armenians their church property, and reopened schools in the Caucasus. This has caused an excellent impression in Armenian circles.