RUSSIA

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1798, 22 August 1906, Page 52

RUSSIA

POLICE STATIONS WRECKED. EXCITING SCENES AT WARSAW AND LODZ. MANY PERSONS KILLED. Three bombs were thrown into a police station at Lodz, wrecking the building and killing a policeman, a Cossack, and three infantrymen. Infantry thereupon occupied adjoining streets, and arrested a hundred persons. At a later' stage patrols of infantry fired volleys in all directions in four streets. Two persona were killed, twenty-one wounded seriously, * and many slightly injured. Traffic was suspended and the shops closed. In the evening a polioeman was killed. Revolutionists at Wlozlawek, in northern Poland, shot dead the Chief of Police and the Chief of the Rural Police. The assassins escaped. Two bombs were thrown into the Chlodna street police station at Warsaw. Two policemen and an infantryman were wounded. A message from Warsaw states that revolutionists organised wholesale ihootinos of police. They killed nineteen policemen, four gendarmes, and seven infantrymen. They also wounded several policemen and soldiers. The soldiers, firing a volley in reply, killed fifteen revolutionists, and wounded a hundred and thirty with bullets or bayonets. SLAUGHTER OF JEWS. DISORDER IN EIGHTY-TWO PROVINCES. MORE POLICE MURDERED. LONDON, August 17. The “Jewkh Chronicle” reports that after the disturbance at Warsaw on Wednesday was quelled the soldiery killed or wounded two hundred and fifty Jowb. Of eighty-seven Russian provinces, eighty-two • are in a modified state of minor siege or other forme of exoep- 1 tsonal defence. Five poliee were shot dead at Plock, near Warsaw. • A bomb was thrown into a policestation at 'Radom. One man was killed. The massacre at Warsaw was an act of revenge on the part of the revolutionaries for the arrest of a hundred Socialists. Obssacks at Tiflis, in Caucadia, refused to perform police duty. A number of them’ were arrested.