THE RUSSIAN. UPHEAVAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2672, 31 May 1905, Page 30

THE RUSSIAN . UPHEAVAL.

ST. PETERSBURG, May 24. Since the promulgation of the Imperial ukase granting religious freedom to the dissenters 26,000 "Greek uniates, or united Greeks, in the Governments of-Siedlec and JLublin have left the Orthodox for the Roman Catholic Church. The authorities are furious, and have forbidden ths Polish press to refer to the subject. A bomb severely injured the chief of police at Siedlec. He was seated on the verandah of his club at the time. The thrower escaped. It is zeported in Kieff that there was a plot to kidnap and hold the Czarevitch to ransom until the fulfilment of the social democratic revolutionary programme. The disoovery was owing "to treachery. Many of the domestic suite have been dismissed. May 25. A bomb thrown on Wednesday killed Prinoe Makachildze, Governor of Baku, a lieutenant, and a, bystander. Serious street fighting occurred between the Jewish factions in Warsaw. Four were killed and 30 wounded. Armenians and Mahommedans blamed Prince Makachildze for not stopping the recent massacres. The peasants • in the Borisloff district have partitioned and ploughed the lands of the nobility. Twenty students were injured in the disturbances at Warsaw. The riot was due to the wealthier Jews trying to evict their indigent, and especially disreputable, 00-religionists. May 26. Prince Nakachidze, Governor of Baku, was returning after calling on the Persian Consul in connection with the Shah's approaching visit, when an unknown man threw a bomb at the carriage, blowing it into fragments. The assassin escaped. During two days' disturbances at Warsaw eight persons were killed and 100 wounded with knives and revolvers. Eighteen are in a critical condition. The authorities did not interfere with the raid, which extended 1 to the aristocratic Jews' residences. May 27. Nineteen persons were injured in yesterday's raids at Warsaw. The troops dispersed the raiders. Fifty were arrested. Martial law has been, proclaimed. A raid on disorderly houses has begun at Lodz. The assassin of Prince Nakachidzes, Governor of Baku, has been arrested. He was working in a factory. There are persistent reports from St. Petersburg that the Reactionaries have regained poww at the Tsarskoe-Selo. May 29. Disturbances have taken place in the Nakhichevan and Erivan districts of Trans-Caucasia. Twenty-two Armenians were killed* All the t Arm.en.ian shops were pillaged, '**"'

LONDON, May 24. It is officially announced that Kolaieff, the assassin of Grand Duke Sergius, showed no contrition. At his execution, speaking on the scaffold, he declared it was a lie that he asked pardon. " I am glad to die," he said, "remaining faithful to the tradition of the People's Will," which is the name of a party identical with the revolutionary Socialists. The Treasury authorities charged Arthur M'Cullough (actor), Harold Brailsford (author and journalist) at Bow street with conspiracy to obtain a passport by means of false pretences. It is alleged they gave a passport to a man bearing the name of M'Cullough, who was killed at the St. Petersburg Hotel in February by a bomb explosion. The Treasury exonerated defendants of all knowledge of the violence contemplated. Brailsford admitted obtaining three passports at the instance of a member of the Russian revolutionary movement on receiving an assurance it was intended for peaceful propagandist purposes. The hearing of the case was adjourned. May 25. The Czar's villa a/t Predensburg, in Denmark, has been redecorated and furniture repaired. There are persistent reports that he intends sojourning there. May 26. To-day the Christians joined the Je\rish Socialists in the demolition of disorderly houses all over Warsaw. The victims are in hiding. Great damage was done.