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THE REVOLT IN RUSSIA.

BETWEEN TWO FIRES. GREAT SLAUGHTER. DROWNING REBELS. United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 2. Renter states that after many hours' fierce fighting at Bakhout on Saturday between Cossacks and rebels* the latter were caught "between two fires. Finally they were routed, aud 300 were killed. The casualties of the troops numbered ten. Anarchy prevails on the Siberian railway, and all the stations have been pillaged. Military trains follow each other indiscriminately in charge of unqualified engine-drivers. The rebels at Moscow on Saturday night attempted to escape across the river" Many were drowned wring to the rappers secretiy cutting 30 feet of channel in the ice. TERRIBLE RAILWAY COLLISION. MURDER OF A DOCTOR. CRUCIFIED ON A TRAM CAR. ST. PETERSBURG, January 2. ; Thirty soldiers were killed, and many' injured in the collision between military trains at Lebedin. The soldiers at Moscow: on. Saturday killed a doctor at his residence for refusing to cease tending the wounded: Rebels at Moscow crucified a policeman on ,a tramcar. He was rescued before he was dead. x . Ml Durnovo, Minister of • the Interior, withholds famine relief from all villages implicated in the agrarian 'outrages. SUDDEN ATTACK BY WORKMEN. SHOOTING TRAIN. DRIVERS. Received IL3I -p.m., January 3rd. ST. PETERSBURG, January 3. While the Dragoons grooming their horses at Riga 300 workmen suddenly attacked them with revolvers and swords, killed eleven and wounded fourteen. Eight workmen were killed, and the rest -withdrew. Reinforcements pursued and surrounded them. The bombs found at Warsaw- belonged to the Jewish Anarchists' Club, which is terrorising the Jewish business men. The revolutionists are shooting the drivers of Polish trains. Three bridges have been destroyed. The, insurgents have destroyed the Government buildings in ten of the communes in.the Kielce district. All the employees of JWarsaw factories have struck. ' ,; ;',' " ! THE PREPARATIONS AT RIGA. ! DEATH OF A VICE-GOVERNOR. . Received 1.3 a.m., January 4th. LONDON, January 3. The " Times " states that Sollagub placed machine guns all over Riga. The warships were outside and everything was ready for repression as sanguinary as at Moscow. Bogdanoviteh, Vice-Governor of Tambouff, has succumbed to the wounds inflicted on him by an assassin. LIBERALS DESPONDENT. THE GOVERNMENT DETERMINED. Received 1.5 a.m., Januarv 4th. ST. PETERSBURG, January 3. Liberal circles of St. Petersburg are despondent as they foresee the complete ascendancy of the reactionaries. The Government announces further pains and penalties on the railway strikers, and declares that the troops of Moscow, besides being faithful, have suppressed the rebellion with vigour and conviction. The message adds that the Government is determined to energetically crush the revolution, which is still active in some places.

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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12870, 4 January 1906, Page 5

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THE REVOLT IN RUSSIA. Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12870, 4 January 1906, Page 5

THE REVOLT IN RUSSIA. Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12870, 4 January 1906, Page 5