THE REVOLT IN RUSSIA.
CHIEFS OF POLICE MURDERED
;EFFECT OF REPRESSION
United Press Associatioa-r-Per Electric Teleerapb—Copyright. '-ST. PETERSBURG. February 9. Chief of Police at Penza. has Been assassinated. The murderer was arrested. The Chief of Police at Kutais has also fteen murdered. The actual number of political prisoners is estimated at- 75.000. Before the present repressive measures in Russia there were agrarian riots in "t'wSh+vfour. provinces. Now there- are riots in forty-eight provinces.
DISAFFECTION IN" THE FLEET.
;iAN T ADMIRAL WOUNDED
GRANTS TO LANDOWNERS.
Received 4.40 p.m.. Februarv 11th. ST. PETERSBURG, February 10. There is a recrudescence 'of disaffection among the crews of tlie fleet, at Sevastopol. Several officers have been arrested. Subsequently an unknown woman wounded Admiral Chukin. The sentrv rushing into the admiral's office ki'led her.
The ><oYoe Vremya" recommends the reconquest of Finland. Russia has granted the landowners! £3.500.000 towards their £20,000.000 in losses by the agrarian" riots.
General Liuievitch reports that the troops have discovered in the-vrallwny workshops at Chita a great store of revolutionary arms, bombs, and pyroxylins: and tiiat many aneata have been .made. ■ ;»-•:
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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12901, 12 February 1906, Page 5
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