THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

Otago Daily Times, Volume 13696, Issue 13696, 12 September 1906, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

THE SIEDLEC MASSACRE. WIDESPREAD DISTURBANCE. IJress Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ST. P'ETERSBURG, September 10. (Received Sept. 11, at 8.35 a.m.) The riots at Siedlec continue. ■ The tronps looted tho Jews' shops and six houses in Mazaar, and the place is now burning. The latest estimate is that 100 persons were killml and 200 wounded. A thousand Jews were also flogged. A BOMBARDMENT THREATENED. INDISCRIMINATE SHOOTING. ST PETERSBURG, September 11. : (Received Sept. 11, at 9.41 p.m.) 'JEhe Governor of Siedlec threatens a bo;nbawlment unless the leaders of the disturbancjss are surrendered. He refuses to give a permit to anyone to leave the city until 15 iterrorists from Warsaw are arrostcd.v

lit is believed that 200 Jews have been killed:

. I.Vo bombs were thrown in the Market square at Rndngusowsku, in Hie Government of Warsaw, killing a policemen and wounding several others. The object was thj; revenge of the murder of a workman byj Cossacks. • The troops immediately fired ini all directions, killing or wounding 40 people.

,'A man with a revolver fatally shot the clilief of police at Grodno. Tile assassin c£J:aped.

RIIIGAXDAGE AND INCENDIARISM. .j . ST. PETERSBURG, September 11. ; (Received Sept. 11, at 9.5-1 p.m.) | Brigandage and incendiarism are rampjmt in Russia, and in many districts it is almost impossible to pay the workmen bjjeause the cashiers are being constantly Willed, wounded, or robbed by secret agents o|f tho Revolutionary, paitv. j The Government rules the Baltic provinces as with a rod of iron, enforcing ihistant obedience under- pain of death. : FIRING AT A BRITISH VICEj , , CONSUL. j September 10. j (Received Sept. 11, at 8.35 a.m.) ; Mr Urqubaii, the British Vice-consul jit Baku, had a narrow escape from assassi(nation. When on the street some unknown liissailnnts bred at bi;n eight times, inilictliiig slight wounds. LONDON, September 11. (Received .Sept. l],>nt 10.54 p.m.) Russia has expressed i egret at tho outrage on Mr Urquharl (British Vice-consul at Baliu). - ' MR FOSTER FRASER'S STORY. ■ September 10. (Received Sept. 11. at 5.55 a.m.) Mr Foster Fraser's story of his experiences iti Russia appeared in the Russian newspapers. Later indirect accounts show that he was searched, but not maltreated, but his Russian valet struck him repeatedly. Mr JVaser did not send any sttiiemcn.t relating to the occurrence to the jStandard. The paper'war, not aware of I bis whereabouts, although it was known | lie intended to proceed'tu Nijni Novgorod. JEWISH REFUGEES. ; • BERLIN, September 10. I (Received Sept. 11, at 8.35 a.m.) ' \ Two thousandßussians, largely Jews, pro daily traversing Germany, intending ito make for New York, 'j'iiey are no! pillowed to remain in Ucrmauv.'