RUSSIA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 11976, 20 September 1906, Page 7

RUSSIA.

An Executioners' Butchery. An Odessa Murderer. Oaar Promises Relief to the Finns Horrible Famine In Samara. Massacre of Jews Feared at Odessa. Press Association.— Telegraph.— Copyright. Received September 20, 10.22 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, September 19. Eye witnesses allege that the incompetence of the executioner, who was a pardoned Sveaborg mutineer, prolonged the girl Konopliamkov's sufferings to half an hour. An Odessa official has been sentenced to three years, though it was proved he personally killed two Jewish families, comprising eleven persons. The Czar's speech, read at the closing of the Finnish Diet, promised early relief for needy agriculturists and industrialists. A priest of Stephanolika, Samar, states that a horrible famine has demoralised the peasants, who, while destroying enormous quantities of grain for vengeance, exist on a meal a day, often of sour milk, given them aa charity. Numbers are deserting their children.

There is intense alarm among the Jews at Odessa at certain actions on the part of the soldiers and police in connection with Jewish shops, which is ipterpreted to mean that a massacre is in preparation.