RUSSIA’S TROUBLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1602, 15 November 1905, Page 2

RUSSIA’S TROUBLES.

MASSACRE OF JEWS.

By telegraph, Presa Aaa'n,, Coay,right

St. Petersburg, Nov. 18. I A mob at Kishinieff placed a number o£ I Jews in barrels Btuded with nails, trund- I ling thorn until thoy wero doad. Two hundred Hhops and 280 housos wore destroyed at Ekatorinoslav. Seventyeight Jows wore killed, and 160 woundod. Jows ate leaving St. Petersburg and other Jows contros, many abandoning lucrative businesses. M. Durnovo has bson appointed Russian Minister of the Intorior. Sovon thousand respeotable inhabitants, including many foreigners, are fleeing I from the city. I A list, of mysterious origiD, is in circulation in Odessa, containing the names I of 100 prominent citizens for assassination.

Paris, Nov. 18.

St. Petersburg advices state that several officers have been oourt-martialled at Kronstadt and shot for donning civilian dress and fleeing the city during the riots. London, Nov. 18.

The Times’ St. Petersburg correspon" deDt states that alarmist reports of a general massacre of Jews and foreigners are grossly misleading. The Jewish outrages are unlikely to reour when the authorities, polios and clergy support the reform movement. Foreigners are por-> 'foctly safe. V Thei' Archbishop of Canterbury lelet graphed to the Metropolitan of St. Peters-; burg, sympathising with them in the troubles and praying for succobs of the efforts of the Church to prevent outrages.

The Times’ St. Petersburg oorrespons dent says that the outrages and massaores of Jews were the direct outoome of the teaohinga of MM. Plehve’s and Pobiedodsteff's rogime, that all Liberals and Jews wero the avowed enemies of Russia. Capetown, Nov. 13. Mass meetings at Johannesburg, Capetown, Bloemfontein, and East London urged Great Britain and other Powers to exercise an influence to prevent atrooities on the Jews.

(Per Press - Association.) ' Auckland, last'hight.

The Premier cabled to the Secretary of State through the Governor, requesting him to, convey to the proper authoritiee profound Sympathy of the people with the Jews-who suffered' so terribly by the recent atrooities and massacres in Russia, and the hope of the people of this colony that peace, order, and good government would soon obtain in that unhappy country. • i ;

GOVERNMENT CONCESSIONS. By telegraph, Presa r A'*a’n, Copyright Received 9.80 p.m., Nov. 14. St. Petersburg, Noy. 14. Besides remitting . twenty-six million roubles of land redemption arrears the Russian Government absolved the families of men killed in the war of all State payments.

London, Nov. 14.

Reuter’s St. Petersburg correspondent reports that, replying to a Polish deputa-' tion urging abrogation of exceptional measures, Count de Witte said it was a mistake to suppose that Government .were; powerless, or to think they would surcon- ‘ der to the oonstant demand for an inadmissable extension of liberties, which came Bolely from a little gaog of revolutionaries. Spring had begunin the nation’s life, but a reaction might succeed. He added that the exceptional measures at Warsaw were taken at the instance of the factory owners.

MARTIAL LAW IN POLAND. By telegraph l , Press Abs’p, Copyright

Received 10.24 p,m., Nov. 14. St. Petersburg, Nov. 14. M. Neidgart, Prefeol of Odessa, has been' dismissed for complicity in the massacre. The Polish press unanimously declare that martial law in Poland. was the result of the Kaiser’s intervention, and because the bureauoraoy is inoensed that Warsaw has hot followed the example of the Odessa, Kieff, and Kishineff massacres.

Two futile attempts were made to destroy by means of. bomba trains filled with soldiers on the Warsaw railway. Received 10.36 p.m., Nov. 14.

Count de Witte has iasusd a communique, declaring that while troubles in Vistula districts continue, and the popula* tion maintain their demauds for complete autonomy, thereby airking at restoring the Polish kingdom, the inhabitants will not bo allowed to benefit under the manifestoes of August 18th and October 30th. Count de Witte declared that the Government would not tolerate attacks on the integrity of the empire. All sections of Progressives are indignant.

It is expeoted that the communique will cause a final and absolute rupture between the Government and Liberals, since the provocative measures enforced in Poland ate regarded as a flagrant violation of the manifesto of October 80th.

Many in St- Petersburg believe that martial law was prgojaimed in Poland from foar of German intervention,

INDIGNATION MEETING IN LONDON.

By telegraph, Press Ass’n,' Copyright

Received 12.31 a.m., Nov. 15. London. N0v..14,

Sir Francis Montefioro presided at a mass meeting in Memorial Hall, called to express horror and indignation at the premeditated massacres of Jewß. Mr Balfour telegraphed that the Government heard of the massacres with pity and horror, and had already taken every step to mitigate tbe calamity. Lord Rothschild said, he believed that Mr Balfour’s and Lord Lansdowne’s action had produced a great salutary effect.

Tbe Lord Mayor, Mr ChamberlaiD, Mr Asquith, Lord Rosebery, Lord James of. Hereford, Bishop Ingram, Bishop Ripon, Doctor Clifford, Rev. R. J. Campbell, thd Chief Rabbi Adler, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster sent messages expressing horror, 1

The meeting rooorded its earnest ponvietion that Jews were net immune term, a recurrence of massacre until they obJ tained a publicly recognised borne in Palestine.