THE REVOLT IN RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12869, 3 January 1906, Page 5

THE REVOLT IN RUSSIA.

RELEASE OF STACKELBERG. WOMAN KILLED BY A SHELL, I GREAT LOSS OF PROPERTY. United Press Association—Per Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. ST. PETERSBURG, January 1: General Stackelberg, who -was captured by the rebels at Riga, has been released. A girl of eighteen commanded the strongest barricade at Moscow. A shell hit an alms house, killing eight women. A thousand Moscow rebels have been arrested. It is estimated, that 20,000 have been killed at Moscow. Rebe.s at Proksoroff factory surrendered after most had escaped. . The losses in property are immense. M. Systin, owner of the largest printing works in_ the city is suing the Government for £500,000, declaring that the troops' destroyed property without provocation: The revolutionary societies at St. Petersburg have issued a" manifesto admitting the failure of the rising, but it was decided-to suspend the order, owing to the general ' insurrection beginning at the New Year. The Government notify that:they will , use all means to crush all attempts, at a general rising. Because the returning Manchurian troops refused to revolt, the rebels at Vileisk sent a loconiotive at 'full' speed against the mili-tary.-train, wrecking it, and injuring* v a number of soldiers. . ■' In response to Admiral Rczhdestvensky's i appeal, the Czar permits the Tsushima s court, martial to be held in public. Count de Witte is devoting £650.000 to ; the allevhuion of the sufferers by famine. DEFEAT AND CAPTURE OF - . VILLAGES. i Received 11 p.m.. January 2nd. e ST. PETERSBURG. January 2. I AKer defeating 4000 of Letts' military s expedition, under Prince Orloff. and' cap : . Turing four insurgent villages. General Pol e lucub. the new Governor of the Baltic v provinces, issued a proclnmotinn summoning n the population to divulge the usurpers 1 names and surrender their amis, otherwisi tl-pv would b» o'lirt-martialled and thi t . vill:ig? i cßimur.ilies trr.nsiiorttd norih.

SK'XURKS BY TiiK i'OLICE. Received 9.18 p.m., January 2nd. ST. PETERSBURG, January 2. The police at Warsaw seized in a Jewish enement one loaded and sixteen unloaded bombs, a quantity of explosives and revolvers. The inmates fled. Numerous ■ irests were made in adjacent tenements.