Cossacks and Police Let Loose on the Populace.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8290, 3 November 1905, Page 5

Cossacks and Police Let Loose on the Populace.

Pillage and Murder,

Streets Converted Into Shambles

Finland Joins the Revolt

{Received To-day, at 7.45 a.m.)

London, Last Night

Renter's correspondent at Kagan reports that apparently on the nights of 28th and 29th ult. the Cossacks and police were let loose, and were permitted to kill and plunder at will.

They pillaged many shops and fired indiscriminately wherever they saw a light in the windows. Peaceable pedestrians were shot down, and one street was converted into a veritable shambles, pools of blood dyeing the snow opposite an ecclesiastical building.

The population were wild with rage, and the Municipality protested to the Governor, who stated that the Chief of Police had resigned. He confined the Cossacks to barracks, and authorised the civic militia to preserve order. He released all the political prisoners. The crowd removed the arms from the police head-quarters for the use of the town militia.

All Finland has revolted, through the crowds are most orderly.

The Governor-General promises that the troops shall not interfere with peaceable people.

The Social Democrats demand the immediate summoning of a constitutent assembly based on universal suffrage.

Miscellaneous Items

[Received To-day, at 5.26 a.m.) St. Petersburg, Last Night. General Trepofi is suspected of trying to trip Count Witte, alternately tolerating and suppressing disorders.

The crowd, at daybreak, serenaded the Prefect of Moscow with dirges, as a reminder of the slaughter of unoffending citizensTroops suddenly appeared, and were preparing to fire, when General Ludnuff, showing his uniform, threw himself in front of the rifles, daring them to fire, thus preventing a massacre. London, Last Night. Reuters agency reports that the Strike Committee has decided to terminate the general strike to-morrow. [Received To-day, at 8.38 a.m.) St. Petersburg, Last Night. The authority in many towns in Finland has been transferred to the Citizen Guard. The Finnish flags and escutcheons have been replaced on Russian public buildings. Anti-Semic outbreaks have occurred in

Nijni Novgorod, Rostoff, Kherson and Vitebsli, many being killed.

The Chief of Police at Poltava had summoned a deputation to witness the liberation of political prisoners. The Cossacks suddenly attacked the deputation, killing some and severely wounding twenty-eight.

Fatal encounters with the military took place at Vidostok and Minsk, and many collisions occurred at Moscow between the Revolutionaries and the so-called Patriots. One of the Governmental partisans, a general, who was leading a so-called Loyalist procession, organised by the police, was shot dead.