TURMOIL IN RUSSIA.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1748, 6 September 1905, Page 52

TURMOIL IN RUSSIA.

SIT. PETERSBURG, August 20. Owing to the prevalence of rioting in OourtancT and other Baltic provinces, land-owners are enrolling old German soldiers to defend their estates and country houses. Count Qrlowski has enrolled seventy-five and Baron Heydeoker a hundred. The German press is protesting •gainst this action. STRIKE OF PROFESSORS. ST. PETERSBURG. August 29. Three hundred and forty-two university professors at Odessa are abstaining from, their duties until the people are given all their civil rights and the universities receive academic autonomy. Professors of universities in other parte are imitating their example. ASSASSINATION IN POLAND. BERLIN, August 29. The journal “Vossieehe Zeitung” reports that the Chief of Police at Czestochova, in Poland, was killed by a dynamite bomb. Several bystanders were also injured. RECENT ANTT-JEWISH DISTURBANCES. - ST. PETERSBURG, August 30. The Kertch municipality has withdrawn the police subvention, and demanded senatorial investigation into the ant i-Je wish disturbances, and has oommended the commandant of the port (Captain Sobietzky) for alone among the officials displaying energy and humanity in preventing wholesale massacres. A resolution was also adopted in favour of compensation or Jewish sufferers, and censuring the authorities for inaction. MURDER AND FIRE. ST. PETERSBURG, August 31. There is an agitation among the peasants in Finland and the Saratov and SSatara districts. Cossacks and infantry have been sent to the scenes. . Peasants in the Warsaw district raided a prison, and murdered eleven thieves, wounding fifty. Several villages were set on fire.