AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Colonist, Volume XLVII, Issue 11435, 14 September 1905, Page 3

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

St. Petersburg, September 13. Count Gori, Viceroy of the Caucasus, has refused to allow Armenian communities to organise a militia in self-defence under Russian officers. Thousands of Tartar horsemen are crossing the Persian -Russian frontier, and joining the insurgents in the Caucasus. .A holy war has been proclaimed. The Armenians have been massacred without regard to age or sex; mutilated children have been thrown to the dogs, and survivors have been forced to embrace Islamism. Prince Tsisianoff, a Caucasian landed proprietor, has been assassinated. . The Tartars desecrated churches at Baku, stole the sacred vessels, and riddled with bullets the picture of the Virgin. Berlin, September 12. The " Vossische Zeitung's" Constantinople correspondent states that the Porte is about to present Russia with a Note protesting against the massacres of Armenians and Mahomedans in the vicinity of I'll *Va«