RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8241, 20 September 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE SIEULCE MASSACRE,

TWO HUNDERD PEOPLE ARRESTED.

SOOIALIb'I PROCLAMATION

Received September If), 8.47 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 18.

Two hundred people have been arrested Id a haphazard fashion at Siedlce, the scene of the recent ghastly massacre. The prisoners are to be tried before a courtmartial composed of officers implicated in the massacre.

Representatives of the British Jews appeal for the prevention of the terrible oritno. The Socialists at Odessa have issued a proclamation setting forth their intenion to kill three officials for every patriot executed by a dramhead court-martial. The first victims will be' the military judge?, the governor, and commander-in-chief. Received September 19, 10.47 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 19. M. Stolypin has informed a deputation of Jews that he had tele* graphed that it was not desirable to summarily try the JewsatSiedlce. Received September 19, 9.55 p.m. LONDON, September 19. Sir Charles Hardmge, in response to a deputation, has telegraphod to Sir Arthur Nioolson, the British Ambassador [at St. Petersburg, concerning the reports that preparations for massacres were being made in Warsaw and elsewhere. APPEAL TO KING EDWARD. Received September 19, 10.57 p.m. LONDON, September 19. The Jews have petitioned King Edward to intercede with the Czar regarding the Siedlce Jews. THE ROYAL CRUISE. Received September 19, 11.47 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 19. The Czar's abandonment of his intention to shorten bis cruise, in order to attend tbe funeral of the late JJGeneral Trepoff, is interpreted as connected with fears of an attempt oa his life.

CZAR'S SERVANTS ARRESTED

Received September 19, 8.40 &.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 18. Maby servants in the (Jzar's Palace have been arrested for showing active sympathy with the revolutionaries. ■ THE SVEABORG MUTINY. SEVENTEEN SAILORS SHOT. Received September 19, 11.9 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 19. Seventeen sailors who had been sectenced in connection with the Sveaborg mutiny were shot yesterday. .tSighty others have been sentenced to penal servitude and service with' disciplinary battalions. Eleven have been acquitted.