RUSSIA’S DISASTERS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5734, 1 November 1905, Page 5

RUSSIA’S DISASTERS.

CABLE NEWS.

UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. —BY ELECTRIC TELEGHAPIi.” - ■COPYRIGHT.

ANOTHER NAVAL MUTINY. MURDERS ON THE BLACK SEA. REPORTED ASSASSINATION OF TWO ADMIRALS. UNDER THE RED FLAG. (Received November 1, 0.56 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, October 31. Persistent reports aro current at Odessa that the crews of four warships murdered Admirals Birilcff and Cliuknin at Samsun, on the southern shore of tho Black Sea. The warships aro stated to have sailed for Sebastopol under tho revolutionary flag. ' COMMUNICATIONS CUT. WARSAW ISOLATED. TELEGRAPHIC WORK SUSPENDED ST. PETERSBURG, October 31.

Warsaw, the capital of Poland, is completely isolated. Since the crews of steamers on tho river Vistula have struck work, tho only means of communication between Northern Russia and- the 'rest of Europe is by cable from Finland to Sweden. The only telegraphic communication with Southern Russia is mado by way of cable from Odessa to Constantinople. TERRIBLE CONFLICTS AT MANY CENTRES. FORTY-FIVE KILLED AT REVAL. BLOODSHED AT ODESSA. , TWENTY KILLED. ST. PETERSBURG, October 31. Sanguinary conflicts aro proceeding at many provincial centres, where the strikes arc extending.

Tho troops wounded many persons at Riga, and lulled forty-five and wounded ninety at Rcval. Cossacks stormed the barricades erected by the strikers and rioters at Odessa. Twenty persons were killed and two hundred wounded. Workmen compelled the closing of shops and restaurants, and overturned tramcars. There were terrible scenes of bloodshed. Tho Cossacks and gendarmes, after shooting those manning the barricades, pursued the frenzied mob into bouses and • garrets. The number of victims is not known, as the police instantly removed the bodies. Ambulance work is actively proceeding. The infantry was considered untrustworthy, and was confined to the barracks. A regiment of tho Grodno Hussars refused to assist the police in dispersing the railway men’s meeting at Warsaw, which the Governor had previously sanctioned. Anarchy and bomb-throwing are rampant at Tiflis (in Transcaucasia). A military train was derailed and several people killed. A largo number of Justices of tho Peace in St. Petersburg and artistes engaged at the Imperial theatres have decided to strike.

THE REACTIONARIES. THE HARSHEST MEASURES URGED. COUNT DE WITTE AMAZED. ST. PETERSBURG, October 30. The leaders of the reactionary party in Russia <are doing their utmost to incite the Ozar to direct General Trepoff to use his 108,000 soldiers and twenty machine guns. Count de Witte has expressed amazement that anyone should desire to mow down the people, who are behaving in an orderly manner. Count de Witte’s concession granting freedom to the press merely permits a temporary discussion of the Duma elections.- - SOME STRIKERS RESUME WORK. RAILWAY MEN STILL OUT. ST. PETERSBURG, October 30. Except the railway men,; the strikers at Kharkoff have resumed work, owing to the Governor withdrawing the troops and allowing the people to peacefully bury the dead. The doctors and chemists have resumed work at Kieff, LONDON, October 30. The “Daily Mail” declares that General Trepoff has completely cowed the capital. PITCHED BATTLE AT MOSCOW. A DAY OF RIOTING AND BLOODSHED. MANY DEAD AND WOUNDED REMOVED. POLICE GIVEN EXTRAORDINARY POWERS. (Per Sonoma at Auckland.) NEW YORK, October 9. A cablegram from Moscow to the "Sun” says-.—This has been a day of rioting and bloodshed. Shortly -after noon crowds on the Everskov boulevards assumed threatening proportions. The police and the military, horse and foot, with Cossacks, wore fully prepared, and a pitched battle took place. The sabres and carbines of the troops—who fired three volleys point blank at the people—-

wore met by the crowd with stones and revolvers.

It is impossible to estimate the casualties. as. according to custom, immediately after the mob was dispersed the streets were cordoned, and the dead and wounded removed into yards, aud tho gates closed. It is feared that 30,000 men employed in the great factories may join in a demonstration. The populace, is exasperated to the last degree, less by open street fighting than by the barbarous action of the police against all persons after the disturbances have been quelled. Tho Prefect has issued a proclamation which places the police and troops in absolute possession of more rights than a civilised army would employ against an enemy in time of war. By virtue of proclamation, the police may seize any person they please. Any pretext is sufficient for arrest. '■ After the fighting was over to-day, boys and youths, men and women, were dragged iuto the Prefect’s courtyard, the gales of which were then cdosed. Thereupon began what is known as “a lesson to the intellectuals.” Scores were taken to a long stable, along the sides of which were drawn up two lines of picked troops, mostly Cossacks, Tho victims wero made to run the gauntlet. There were fifty men on each side, who brutally struck them with whips and the butt ends of rifles.

The victims were forced to run until they dropped, fainting or dead. They wore then tucked up and removed to the prison infirmary or mortuary. ■ The unfortunate creatures were taken straight from the street to this peculiar Russian form of execution, without possioility of ottering defence or hearing an accusation against them.