THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2736, 22 August 1906, Page 17

THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

ST. PETERSBURG, August 13. During the past -fortnight 53 ( "'soldiers ' or police) have been murdered and 41 wounded at Waisaw. \ Two German factory-owners were mur- i dered at Lodz. j August 16. A message from Warsaw states that -the revolutionists have organised wholesale shootings of the police. They killed 17 policemen, four gendarmes, and seven infantry, and wounded 17 policemen and soldiers. The latter, firing a volley in reply, killed 15 revolutionists and -wounded 130 with bullets and bayonets. Three bombs wrecked the police -station at Lodz, and killed a policeman, a Cossack, and three infantrymen. The infantry occupied the adjoining streets, and made 100 arrests. Later on the infantry patrols fired volleys in all directions in four streets, killing two people and wounding 21 severely and many others slightly. Traffic has been suspended and the 6bops closed. A policeman was murdered in the evening. The revolutionists at Woolawck 6hot and killed the chief of police and the chief of the rural police. The assassins escaped. Two bombs flinch were thrown at the Chlodna Stieet Police fetation, Warsaw, wounded two policemen and some infantrymen. The Cossacks at Tiflis refused to perform police duty. A number were arrested. Five police were shot dead at Plock, near Warsaw, and a bomb thrown at the Radom Police Station killed one. The massacre at Warsaw was an act of revenge on the part of the revolutionaries for the arrest of 100 Socialists. August 17. Of 87 Russian provinces 82 are in a modified state of minor siege or other forms of exceptional dofence. August 19. Several English workmen weie injured during the Lodz (Poland) riots. The Prefect of St. Petersburg, on his own responsibility and without trial, exiled a man named Wright, supposed to be a Britisher, to Archangel. Six armed men entered the Dadijda Steamboat Company's offioe at Nijni 'Novgorod, and, overpowei-ing the 2' o liceman, stole 10,000 roubles (£1000). August 20. Ten of the participators in the Kvon-f-tadt rising have been sentenced to death, and 122 to penal seivitude, while 15 have been acquitted. I Eighteen of the Pemyatazova's sailors have been executed, 40 imprisoned, and 34 acquitted. i The revolutionaries at Warsaw purposely picked a quarrel with thejCJennan Vice-consul, and boxed his earg^'fml when the Governor went to apologise the Natolinska street incident occurred. The police were told that a fair-haired girl threw the bombs, and all the fair-haired girls in the neighbourhood were arrested, but the perpetrators escaped. LONDON, August 14. Only one Buesian telegram was received yesterday, chronicling 50 arrests of excursionists at Warsaw. The Standard comments on the dearth of news, and says tltat it amounts to a practical suspension j of information, \

August 17. Tbe Jewish Chronicle reports that after the disturbance at Warsaw on Wednesday had been quelled the soldiery killed or wounded 250 Jews. Reuter reports that at a given signal every policeman in the streets of Plock (in Russian PolandJ was murdered. Two hundred members of the military section of the Social Revolutionaries were arrested at St. Petersburg and Moscow in three days. There was great disorder at Butyrik Prison, where the troops fired on the mob, killing two and wounding 10 others. Many bomb factories have been disco vered at jKazan, and many students in the Technical College arrested. Xo Cossacks are attending the military manoeuvres at Tsarkoe-selo, all being engaged in police work. August 18. The deatb sentence which was passed on the Sebastopol mutineers has been commuted to 20 years' penal servitude. August 19. Three bombs, were thrown '- - balcony in Natolineka street, \V. the Governor-General's carriage. Ta\ i imploded behind the carriage, smashing ths windows in the neighbouring houses. It is reported that the Governor-General received concussion of the brain. Just before the Governor-General passed three young men, armed with revolvers, ordered the tenants to leave the Jiat from which the bombs were thrown. PARIS, August 13.. The Temps sarcastically summarises the measures of M. Stolypin, the "Russian Premier, for the pacification of tbe country as follows :—": — " The suppression of all Liberal newspapers, the imprisonment of 278 persons in five days, the expulsion or deportation of 100 others, and the issue of instructions to the provincial Governors to provide servile candidates for the Duma."