RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8263, 17 October 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

PRISONERS TO BE PROMPTLY EXECUTED. Reueived October 16, 8.41 a.m. ST. PETEKSBUKG, Oct. 15. The Russian Government lias eeoretly oiraularised the provincial governors, direoting in the Qzar's i name the prompt execution of pris- | oners condemned by the travelling courts-martial, and also intimating that the Czar rejects all petitions for mercy. MURDER AND ROBBERY. Received October 15, 8.41 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 15. A gang at Piategirik entered the residenoe of the manager of Noble's works, killed him, and decamped with three hundred roubles. EXECUTION OF THE KRONSTADT MUTINEERS. A FEARFUL SCENE. Received October 16, 9.35 p.m. I ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 16. Details in connection the execution of nineteen naval matin eers at Kronstadt show that seventeen aooepted the priest's ministrations and two refused, An officer, readies aloud the sentences, was stopped through tne prisoners singing a revolutionary funeral hymn. The pris'jnerfl were tied to a rope stretched between two posts. A made by the prisoners not to have sacks placed over their heads was refused. The firing party, drawn from the Light Infantry, who, like the prisoners, were shiveriug with oold, muddled the volley, and killed only three outright. The killed and the wounded dragged down the others into a confused mass, from which cursings]at the executioners for their clumsiness. The firing then degenerated into butchery. The corpses were crammed' into sacks and dropped into the sea.