THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5678, 28 August 1905, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

TERRIBLE SCENES OF VIOLENCE. WHOLESALE ARRESTS MADE AT LODZ. FLIGHT OF LANDOWNERS. ST. PETERSBURG, August 25. Cossacks surrounded a socialist meeting at Dlutow, near Lodz, and arrested tnree hundred and eighty people. Four hundred and fifty more were arrested at Lodz. Martial law has been proclaimed throughout the whole of Warsaw. Government strikers blow up a bridge over tho Vistula river, near Radom. Daring tho holding of a fair in the village of Lihovba, 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 eats cut off. Rioters in twenty-six communes in tho 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 ablaze. The fires caused damage estimated at millions of roubles. Tho majority of tho landowners have taken refuge in Germany and Sweden. GRAIN SUPPLIES IN THE SOUTH. (Received August 28, 0.59 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, August 27. Tho 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 hulk of the grain accumulated along tho railways will he required for famine-stricken districts. MUTINOUS SAILORS COURTMA TOTALLED. NINE SENTENCED TO DEATH. (Received August 26, 4.19 p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, August 26. A sequel of the recent naval revolt was the court-martialling of one hundred and thirty-seven sailors at Libau. Eight were sentenced to bo shot, nineteen to imprisonment with hard labour. DISAFFECTION IN THE ARMY. ST. PETERSBURG, August 26.

An inspection of the barracks at Lodz revealed that the Oloneski regiment was in possession of many Jewish and Polish proclamations. One hundred and fifty Jewish soldiers were at once transferred to Lomzu, the seat of the regimental depot.