TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1800, 5 July 1906, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

By telegraph, Pr*s» A* 9 ’ n > Copyright St. Petersburg, July 3Somo artillery near Moeoow have been transferred to Smolensk for P Bt ‘ ,01 P a h t in politics. The troops ot Vladakray have been disbanded. . , One of the dangers of the> B*"* situation is the possibility of the arm> beooming divided against itself. « Boganovilcb, an anti-Semitic pamphlelt . has banked a quarior of a million pound

storlicg abroad. . , .. . The Minister for War ordered offioors ot Bieloßtock lo be severe y dean with If tho newspaper oharges were oo fil An infantry oaptain, a gendarmP, and five policemen were shot d-ad at Warea yesterday, and two polioo t 0 by terroiists, who csoapod. The polio have now been withdrawn, and the street are patrolled by infantry. _ The Rueskky Viedomssti Btates that tne decision to dispereo the Houma and arres fourteen labor members who had eigne an eppoal to the nation has been abandoned after tbc British Ambassadors audionoo with the Czar. Tho Government havo asked the Douma to vote ten millions of pounds for thereliet of famine districts.

JAPAN’S INTENTIONS.

A GOVERNMENT SCHEME.

By telegraph, Fresi Aiva’n, Copyright

Reoeived 9.58 p.m., July 4. St. Petersburg, July 4. The Novoe Vremya declares that Japan has decided to seize the railway as far as Harbin. . . Q . An official communique issued at Hi. Petersburg shows that the Government propose to hand to the peasants on easy terms all arable Crown lands, and puroba?e any private properties offerings reselling them to peasants at low prioes. Government will support the migration of peasantry, simplify the forma'ities of land purchase, and promote emigration to Siberia and Central Asia.- They claim that their measures will bring effectual relief to peasantry, while expropriation of private lands would ruin peasants. The Douma apparently regards the Government's scheme with absolute indifference.