RUSSIA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13999, 4 September 1907, Page 5

RUSSIA.

FURTHER, ACTS, OF VIOLENCE.

Press Association—By Tclegr&ph— Copyright.

ST. Petersburg! September 2.

A man sfiofc M, Ivanoff, governor of the prison in the Viborg quarter. The assassin was captured and hanged within 48 hours.

"THE BLACK HUNDRED."

ANOTHER POGROM AT ODESSA.

,' ST. PETERSBURG, September 3, (Received Sept. 3, at 10.27 p.m.

■ The "Black Hundred" are conducting a pogrom at Odessa in'revenge for tho deaths of an 'artillery officer and three policemen, who were killed while OKunining a bomb which was seized in a house. The rioters have already killed tliree people and wounded' 60, the victims being chiefly Jews.

TJie situation at Odessa, 'iriiich had been unsatisfactory for some time, assumed such a serious aspect a few months ngo -that the foreign Consuls mot and decided \o communicate with' their respective Ambassadors with' a view to • making representations in tho proper quarters. The specific motive of this step was the unbridled hooliganism of the Union of tho Russian People, which resulted in liodily injuries to several foreigners. No British were among tho sufferers. ■. It was stated' that it had booome abundantly evident that peace and order would never he assured in Odessa mtthout ft change in the local administration. Kver since tbo pogrom,of October, 1905, tho negligence, if not of the police and fho authorities lias been patent to tho whole world. The Union ot the Russian People and the tjirbulcnt Jewish youth alternately indulge their homicidal propensities to tho dinger of the peaceful inhabitants. The authorities arc unable or unwilling to cope with tho evil, and havo also proved incapable of dealing .with .the labour. complications which havo long been causing great loss of trade. They havo, it is true, prevented a repetition of pogroms on n, largo seals, but this is attributed more to the measures of solf-dafonco taken by the Jews than to energetic precautions on the part of tho officials. Early this year the authorities gate carto blanohe to the Union of tho Russiau People to hold public celebrations which, presumably, wore intended for election purposes. Iho ce.ebrationa, as might lravo lxsen oxpeotsd, led to sanguinary -encounters be■twoon the so-yllcd " White Guards," a new name for the " Black Hundreds," and tho Jews and students. If all the details contained' in tho telegrams aro to bo believed, tho " White Guards" shot down Jewish children, bludgeoned students, and generally introduce! a Tdgn of terror. The University and the Bourse wore closed, and despairing telegrams ware sent by the town council to St. Petersburg. The complete failure of the Union 6 ,tho Russiou Pcoplo at tho polls had, howevor, enraged the "Wlv'te Guards" so that not even tho police cou*;l restrain them. Iho Consular reports regarding the situation at Odessa were brought to the notico of ■tho Russian Government by alMho Embassies concerned. . The Premier is undcrstdod to havo telegraphed stringent ordots to General Kaulbars immediately to put a stop to the lawlessness. A telegram front' Odessa states that a committee of public inoir'had been formed to register outrages.