TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1779, 9 June 1906, Page 3

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

By, telegraph, Press Aos'n, Copyright St. Petersburg, June 7. Russian seamen on striko at Odessa ihreaton, in tho event of seamen end firemon being imported from the Baltic, to blow up foreign shipping, and oreate international oomplioations. Infantry with quiok-firers are guarding the harbor. Fearing that tho Douma will be unable to scours a settlement of the agrarian question, peasants are preparing to seize the land, especially at Yoronegb, Siratcff, j qqJ Grodno. Tho Government offers

landless peasants in the central aud southern provinoos throe and a half million acres on the right bank of the Volga, in the Samara district.

One hundred and sixty three seamen who were implicated in the mutiny on tho battleship Kniaz Potemkin and the remainder of those in Boumania sinoe landed havo petitioned the Douma to obtain an amnesty for them.

Russia offered Boumania 20,000 rouble:

if it would kidaap Matusohmko, the ringI leader of the mutiny, and deliver him to Russia by sea. A friend cabled him to quit Boumania, ' Socialist members of tho Toil party proI posed that the Douma refer tho Agrarian programme to looal committees elected by direct universal suffrage. The peasant members of the Toil parly, reoognising that the Soci tiists were disguised revolutionaries, unanimously rneots the proposal'.

Mosoow workmen reverse their previous attitude, and now strongly support tho Douma, and contemplate a general strike if Goryemkin continues defiant, but will

not have recouree to an armed rising.