TURMOIL IN RUSSIA.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1747, 30 August 1905, Page 31

TURMOIL IN RUSSIA.

gTZRRIBLE SCENES OF VIOLENCE. WHOLESALE ARRESTS MADE AT LODZ. ST. PETERSBURG, August 25. Cossacks surrounded a socialist meeting at DlutoWj near .Lodz, and arrested torree hundred and eighty people. JTour hundred and fifty more were arrested at Lodz. . Martial law has been proclaimed throughout the whole of Warsaw. Government strikers blew up a bridge over the Vistula river, near Radom. During the holding of a fair in the village of Lihovka, in the province of Verkhnednyeprovsk,. an immense crowd of peasants attacked the merchants, and pillaged their goods. Some of the men were massacred, their eyes being gouged out and ears cut off. . Rioters in .tvvt. ;x communes in the Courland district wrecked Government buildings and burned lists of conscripts prepared for .purposes of mobilisation. A large forest and a farm homestead were also .set ablfize- The 'fires caused, damage estimated at millions of roubles. The majority of the landowners have taken refuge in Germany and Sweden. ST. PETERSBURG, August 26. A sequel of the reoent naval revolt was the court-martialling of one hundred and thirty-seven sailors at Libau. Eight were sentenced to be shot, nineteen to imprisonment with hard labour. Am inspection of the barracks at Lodz xeveaied that the Cloneski regimaent was in possession of many Jewish and Polish proclamations. One hundred and fifty Jewish soldiers were .at onoe transferred to Lomzu, the seat •of the regimental depot. Peasants in the Caucasus refused to allow their landlord, Prince Inukhrausky, the proportion of the crops to which he is entitled. In consequence, a of wheat was removed by the police/ ' A thousand peasants then armed themEelves with pitchforks and bludgeons, and demanded restitution of the wheat. Cossacks who were ordered to disperse the mob charged them and fired. Seventy were killed or wounded. The peasants tried to shoot Prince TnuKh rau sky. ST. P ’ TERSRTTRG, August 27. The export of grain from Russian ports in the Black Sea is paralysed through the Government retaining the railway rolling-stock. Wheat and rye are dearer at Odessa than in London.

it is anticipated that the bulk of the grain accumulated along the railways ■will he required for famine-stricken -districts. As the result of the Czar’s edict of April 30th last, conceding liberty of ■worship, an immense number of former Jews (including the whole village population of Astrachan) have re-e’m-hraced the Jewish faith. A Russian Navy League is in course iof formation.