AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

West Coast Times, Issue 13733, 1 February 1906, Page 3

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Si Peteesburg, Jan 31 Gomel is now in flames. Cossacka and hooligans are looting the town.

Burnovu, Minister of the Interior, has forbidden a Mobamtdan Congress at Moscow, tbomgh scores of delegates have travelled .scores of miles in order to dis« cuss political, social, and religious requirements.

Punitive columns in tbe Baltic provinoes are executing insurgents wholesal*.

Owing to the murder of two policemen at KieUe, a body of troops lefi with the Governor's demands for the delivery within three daya of arms and explosives held without a license, otherwise those found |wiih tbem in their possession would, be shot without a trial. la the case of minors carrying arms*, their parents or guardians would be bhot.

A crowd in Riga stormed the Police Station and killed three policemen. They released 17 political priioasrs.