TROUBLE IN RUSSIA

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1796, 29 June 1906, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA

A BREACH OF TREATY. Bjj telegraph, Pres* Asa’n, Copyright

Stockholm, June 27. Sweden is muoh disturbed at Russia lauding a considerable military fores at Presto, one of the islands of the Archipelago, on the pretext of preventing the landing of arms in Finland. All the in« habitants were ordered to leave exoept the pilots. A flotilla of torpedoes and deßlroyers patrol the vicinity. - Sweden considers the Rqssian action a breach of the Treaty of Paris of 1856. St. Petersburg, Jane 27. M. Vinevar, a member of the Douma, has been informed that massacres of Jews are being prepared for at Zhitomir, Sooth Western Russia, and Saratog.

DISAFFECTION AMONG CRACK"' REGIMENTS. - M By telegraph, Press Aits’n, Reoeived 11.42 p.m., June 28. mo t, St ‘ Petersl) urg. Juno 28. Ine Preobsgansky crack regiment of guards, founded by Peter tho Great, ol which the Czar is an honorary oolonel and frequently wears the regiment’s uniform has been reprimanded. The affair oaueoc an immense sensation in St. Petersburg It is regarded as confirming the reports ol disaffection arising from the rumored approaching dissolution of the Dooms Toe fi.s< batt-dion has now been ordered io a rtiii .te locality in Novgorod diatriot, Resolutions passed by the regiment in« eluded condemnation of corporal punishment and a demand for release from the opening of private letters. The Sempovisky regiment, founded by Peter, is equally disaffected, aod repeatedly testifies its sympathy with peasants.

The mu liny at Batoum was quietly quelled. It originated in a demand for better treatmsni. Many Cossack corps seek to be relieved of polioa duty.