MURDER AND PILLAGE.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11558, 20 February 1906, Page 3

MURDER AND PILLAGE.

PRISONS ALL FULL. Received February 19, 9.14 p.m. St Petersburg, February 19. Owing to the reluctance on the part of wealthy Liberals to contribute to funds after the failure of the Moscow uprising, the revolutionaries j are systematically robbing banks, Treasury officers, and brandy shops. A band killed four officials of the Treasury at Usman, and decamped with twenty-two thousand pounds. Another band robbed the Union, works at Riga of eleven hundred pounds. Owing to the prisons being all full, the Government is compelling employers to dismiss undesirables, who are then expelled from St. Petersburg. Generals Kuropatkin and Batiano have been recalled from Manohuria. Lieut. Sohimdt refused food for six days, because his relations were not allowed to visit him. His counsel intends to refuse to -defend him, on the ground that he is insane, and petitions Count de Witte to stop the trial.