A RECORD OF CASUALTIES AND EXECUTIONS IN RUSSIA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13811, 26 January 1907, Page 7

A RECORD OF CASUALTIES AND EXECUTIONS IN RUSSIA.

Tho Hon. Maurice Baring, in a letter to tho Morning Post, dated St. Petersburg, November 19, says:— Between the 17th of October, 1905, and tbo 17th of October, 1906, 16,992 people ' were killed and wonnded in I'ussia owing to political Ui&order. If we deduct the number of wounded from this figure, we i get a total oi 7331 killed. The larger ; figure includes ordinary inhabitants and representatives of the Government, 13,381 of tho victims being inhabitants, 3611 representatives of the Government (inclucl- • ing the wounded and those who were victims of muidcrouß attempts). As regards the inhabitants, they perished t-hns ; 215 were- shot by ordinary courts-martial, 341 by field courls-maitial (in the period of ono month and a-balf), 741 by punitive expeditions, and tho rest by soldiers, police, hooligans, and robbers, Of representatives o! authority the greatest num-. her of victims were soldiers and Cossasks, amounting to 750. Next in rank to these come the policemen and tho watchmen, amounting to 452; then police officers, inspectors, and Bergeante (226). Besides theee there are 123 officials, 109 officers, 96 agents of the eecret police, 81 Gover-nors-general and officials of high rank, 60 chiefs of police, and 33 gendarmes of higher rank. Of tho inhabitants of the country, from October 17, 1905, in leas than half a month,. 4085-people were killed in '.'pogroms" in 84 towns; in November 774 wero killed in the same way, and during this month there werd no executions. In December, resulting from, punitive expeditions, the armed rising in Moscow, revolts in nine towns, and a "pogrom" in the Ekaterinoslavski Government, the number of killed amounts to 4721. In January 995 people were killed, out of which 279 were condemned to death, with or -without trial, the majority of these being in tho Baltic provinces. In February the number fell to 387, 220 of which were condemned to death. In March there were no sentences of death, and tbo number of lulled and wounded fell to 209. In April there were 227 killed and wounded and only eight executions, From the end of April till the end of May there were 424 killed and 41 executions-; in July 998 killed and wounded, 25 executions. In this month, according to official reports, there wero 52 cases of disturbances among the troops. In August thero were 1743 killed and wounSed. At tho end of August the field courts-martial began, and for September we have 638 killed and wounded and 254 executions, 147 of which were carried out by the field courts-martial and 17 without any trial. During the first 16 days of October we have 310 killed and wounded, 25 executions by ordinary courts-martial, and 81 by extraordinary courts-martial. Since the instituion of these tribunak up to today there have been 338 executions by their order. Taking tho representatives of authority the number of victims is ae follows :--October, 1905, 65; November, 39; December, 316; January, 1906, 337; February, 39; March, 39; April, 42; May, 126; Juno, 142; July, 239; August, 322; September, 168; half tho month of October (1-16), 73.

The number of bombs thrown during the year amounts to 244. During the latter half of October there wero two successful thefts of Government money on a large scale, and bombs were thrown at General Eennenkatnpf and tho Governor of Moscow, besides a daily list of smaller crimes and robberies which read generally as follows (I transcribe from the Novoe Vremya of yesterday):—At Vinitza a bomb was thrown by a schoolboy in the house of the schoolmaster. At Neforosh a guard was wounded. At Sebaetopol a midshipman shot another. At Serdobski a Government magistrate and one of his attendants were killed. At Poltava the General of the garrison was 'killed. In the Government of Viborg the Resistant of the Chief of Police wae wounded. Sums were stolen in different parte of Russia to the amount of 14,244 roubles. An attack was made on an estate in Ekaterinoslav._ A goods train was robbed. This is a fair example of the daily list. Sometimes it is much longer. As to the number of people who have been sent to faroff plows without a trial (as Tacitus says, "et si ob gravitafem coeli interieeent, vile damnum") accounts differ, -the Strana estimating the number at 40,000, and the Novo Vremya. indignantly stating that the number amounted only to 4000 or 8000, I forget which. From all of which the writer deduces two facts—(l) That tho country is not yet pacified; (2) that the Government has not yet the confidence of a largo section of the population. The question that then arises is this, Are these people blind and mad, sick with hysteria, blind and deaf with party hatred and passion, that they do not give their support to tho Government, since it is admitted on all sides that M. Stolypm is an honourable man and is honestly determined to carry out reforms? Ho states the facts, and concludes:—Were I a Russian, my confidence in the present Government would vary in accordance with my belief in iis strength and its efficiency and not in accordance with its professions

of LiberaJism; that is to say, I should consider it to be a Government exactly of the eamo kind as that of M. Plehve (it must not be that 11. Plehvo stated that Lis ultimate object was the introduction of drastic reforms), which, the people must bear with unless they are strong enough by united ami peaceful effort, or by ail armed rising, to force it to capitulate.

WOLFE'S SCHNAPPS restores mental 'vxi physical vigour.

— Tim memorial to tlio officers and men of the ICing's Own Scottish Borderers who have fallen in battle was unveiled on tlie North Briiigo, Edinburgh, a. fen - weeks ago. Lord Provost Sir Robert Cranston, at a banquet wliich followed the unveiling ceremony, suggested that memorials of Wallace .and Bruce, for the erection of which there are funds in the liande of the torn council, and a memorial to General Ws-uehoP© and lira Scottish eoldicrs who fell during the South African war, should bo placed on the other pedestals of the bridge.