AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1405, 16 March 1905, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

PEASANT- MOVEMENT EXTBNDti ING. // By Electric Telegrapher Press Association—^ 7 ; V- „ ST. PETSRSbT .General Trcpoff ha ffiEfewed hiatus warning to the stria /dthat they*'.; 1 - will be mobilised uniessrthey resum- . ■ ed labor.

Many have returned to work. The Czar’s senior page has lieSiSi Af denounced owing to hostility Wards the Court. He has been pro-M'i nounced insane. Incriminating cor-{ifr respond ence, Socialist literature, and ; chemicals were found in his apart-,©'; merits.. • ' .;jr,ve

The peasant movement in Russia is extending over the whole of the central provinces.

THE TROUBLES INCREASE.

By Electric Telegraph—Per Press • Association—Copyright. vE Rcceivcd 9.57 p.m.„ March 15. .* ST. PETERSBURG, March 15. .' Tlie peasants revolt is extending in the north-west provinces. There is great turbulence at iVilna and Kovno.

Boys at Warsaw refuse to return, to commercial and technical schools,; and compelled .the closing of private? girls’ schools.

It is believed at Sb. Petersburg that the date of meeeing of the Representative Assembly will bo am* nounced simultaneously with the order for further mobilisation.

PEASANTS PLUNDER ESTATES/'

By, Electric Telegraph.— Per Press Association—Copyright. •) Received 10.3 p.m., March 15 s iS' ST. PETERSBURG, March 15, Peasants plundered estates of the , ar, Sergius, and others of the imperial family in Scheraigor tnet, the damage amounting to several million roubles.

ASSASSINATION OF GRAND DUKE SERGIUS,

-NEWS BY. THE MAIL-

Jtjtr (Pcc R.M.S, iVcatura,. zb Auckland.}, SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23: A 1 Mbwcpw; telegram, Bated Fedjruasy 18, says': Within the or.the far-famed Kremlin Palace almost underneath the historical tower from which Ivan the Terrible watched the heads of his enemies fal- ' hng beneath the axe of the famou&V * “u., '^ uare <" 'Within a stone’s throw: of the great bell of Moscow, the Grand Duke Sergius met a terrible death shortly before 3 o’cßJck yes4-‘ ; terday afternoon. - The deed was committed by a single terrorist, who threw beneath 1 , the carriage of the Grand Duke a+L bomb charged with the same high-"-power explosive which brought M. Plehve’s death.

The missile was packed with nailsaJiti fragments of iron. It? explo-?-*; sion tore the Imperial victim’s body to ghastly fragments, which strewed thp snow for vaDds around. livery window in the great- lofty,*' facade of the Palace of J ustice was ' i u v shattered, and bits of iron were embedded deeply in the walls of the arsenal a hundred yards away.-