The outbreak in the Caucasus grows continually more alarming.
Hundreds have been shot by infantry and artillery at Balakhany, near" Baku. One thousand were killed and wounded during a desperate attack on the military camp and provision sir Charles Hardinge, the British Ambassador at St. Petersburg, has sent an urgent note to Count Lams-dorf, and has also telegraphed to" the Viceroy of the Caucasué, requesting protection for British lives and property.—Reuter, London, Sth September, The revolt in the Caucasus has been long planned, and carefully organised, and fomented by Turkish agitators bearing the green standard,—Exolusive service.
9th September.
It is believed that the Russian Authorities are now paying dearly for their policy of inciting the Tartars against the Armenians. The former are now attacking all Christians,—Laelusive service, London vid Bombay, 9th September, Four British subjects are besieged in house ut Balakbany, snd the Governor of Baku declares that he is powerless to help them.—Reuter, Later, It is feared that the four Britishers at Balakhany have been shot or have perished in the flames, The latest telegrams from the Caucasus are vague and confused, and it is impossible to say when ther the rising is spreading or subsiding. Against the reassuring official telegrams there are private messages recounting wholesale mnssacros of Armeninns.—Zeuter, 10th September.
'The Armenian Bishop of Shusha' (province of Elizabethpol) telegraphs an appalling account of the devastation there. The town is a mass' of ruins, The fighting between Tartars and Armenians lasted five days, Hundreds of killed and wounded are lying in the streets, The Bishop appeals for aid for the starving thousands.
It.is estimated that the actual destruction in the: oil industry at Baku involves the direct lo-s of £20,000,000 sterling, while it will require several: millions to restore the working. There are besides immense losses to Russian industries {using naphtha as fuel—Zeuter.
11th, September.
News comes from Tiflis, thatthe whole Tartar population of the Zanzezursk district has risen and has, been joined by four thousand armed Persian Kurds, The Viceroy has made urgent representations to the Persian authorities—Huclusive ser-
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