TROUBLE IN RUSSIA

Gisborne Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1703, 20 March 1906, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA

By telegraph, Press Aes’n, Copyright

London, Maroh 18.

Mr Rothschild, a member of tho House of Commons, speakiog at Chosham, declared that there was irrefutable evidence that every refugee refused admission to England and repatriated, bad been shot on the Russian frontier without trial.

THE DOUMA ELECTIONS.

MARKED ABSTENTION FROM

VOTING.

By, telegraph* Press 'Astfn, Copy.ri'gh Received 1047 p.m., Maroh 19.

St. Petersburg, March 19. Tho election of delegates to the Primary Eleotoral College of Douma has begun. It was marked by an enormous abstention on the part of minor landowners. The oolleges were completely swamped by the olergy, who wanted extraordinary privileges. Ia the elections at Odessa only 40 out of 2000 electors voted. At Kakintive, out of 14,263 only 53 voted, mostly olergy, who elected eleven priests out of fifteen candidates. At Mosoow moderate reactionaries were ohiefly elected, owing to minor landowners abstaining, Mill hands at St. Petersburg were afraid to vote. REBELS CAPTURE PRISON AT WARSAW. POLITICAL PRISONERS RELEASED

By telegraph. Press Ass’n, Cooyrigli Reoeived 9.10 p m., March 19.

St. Petersburg, March 19.

An armed mob captured tbe prison at Warsaw, and released tbe political prisoners, after killing one warder and mortally wounding two. Lieut. Sohmidt’s sentence has been oommunted. He will be shot instead of hanged.