RUSSIAN CRISIS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7935, 8 January 1906, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISIS.

AKOIHER BiG STRIKE. NORTH CAUCASIAN REPUBLIC. Received January G, 8.52 a.m. LONDON, January 5. Tho St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Mail states that a strike has occurred on 11 provincial railways, throwing 120,000 men idle. The revolution is activo in 12 provinces. Tho Times states that the troops, including Cossacks, have joined tlio nowly- proclaimed North Oaucasin Kopbulic. The workmen engaged in tho iron and steel trades in Odessa, disregarding the employers' remonstrances, cotitiniio manufacturing daggers and short swords. CHARGES AGAINST DUBASSOFF. WHOLESALE ARRESTS AND DISMISSALS. \ Received January 7, 4.50 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, January G. The Russian Liberal organs unanimously declare *hat General Dubassoff permitted wanton slaughter at Moscow. An enormous namber of arrests have been effected in the provinces, including Priests. Railway men are being dismissed wholesale uuloss they undertake never to strike again. THE ODESSA MASSACRE. I (By San Francisco Mail). DENVER, Deoember 13. H. H. Pelflsh, of this city, to-day received a letter from his brother, Eli Pelfisb, in Odessa, describing the massacre of Jew« in that city. The lettor is in part as follows:—"Prom October 17 to October 23 my family and I were hidden in the darkness of our cellar, and now thank God our lives were even spared. "There happened here the most terrible scenes. There are 30,000 families that saved absolutelynothing but their clothes oa their backs, and are now huddled together in the open streets. There were 20,000 injured and 15,000 murdered. Little children were hurled out of windows to their death, and awful injuries were inflicted. Women were pierced with large knives, their stomachs and intestines out open, and were then left to die in tho streets hy thousands. "On account of these deathly scenes, I am too weak to give you anything like a true description. Ali I can tell you is that we are all sick from tho happenings, and our nerves cannot bear it any longer. This same story we hear from all the small towns around, and the condition of the people is the same. Their homes and stores have been destroyed, and the people tortured and murdered." THE FAMINE IN THE PROVINCES. (Per San Francisco Mail). ST. PETERSBURG, Deo. 12. Although tbe Government is making efforts to relieve the famine in tho provinces where the crops failed last summer, the work is being greatly embarrassed by the unsettled condition, arfd already pitiful tales of, distress are pouriug in from remote districts. Peasants and their families are starving, and private relief is being organised and appeals being sent out not only through Russia, but to foreign countries. Tbe situation in the province of Orel is particularly acute, and tbe marshals of tbe nobility have requested the Associated Press to make a particular appeal to the charity and humanity of Americans, whose harvests have been so bountiful. They ask that donations should bo sent to Alexander Aloxandrovich Stakovioh, one of the prominent Liberal Leaders, at Eletz, Government of Oriofr, care of Northern Bank of that place. The committee is arranging to institute diningrooms and bakeries where the starving moujiks and their families can be fed during the winter, and also to arrange stations for the distribution of fodder for the horses and cattle of tbe farmers, the doath of which would be an untold calamity to them. The women of the district have been put to work maicing lace and peasant embroidery, by the sale of which it is hoped to increase the funds at the disposal of tbe committee. In Orel province, especially, the famine promises to bo much more severe than that of 1891, when the American people so generously sent a shipload of wheat and corn to tbe starving.

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