TRAIN ROBBING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1828, 8 August 1906, Page 2

TRAIN ROBBING.

THE IMPERIOUS CZAR.

RULE WITH FIRE AND SWORD I’RESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received 10.19 p.m , August 7. St. Petersburg, August 7, Passengers on a mail train at Libau pulled the communication cord and brought the train to a standstill, when 25 robbers boarded the train, but failed to find L 15.000, which had been carefully concealed, The Czar on learning of the Sveaborg and Kronstadt mutinies, stamped his feet, exclaiming, “Now I sha'l rule as my forefathers did with fire and sword.” M, Stalypin fears that Goneral Trepofi’s growing encroachment will render the Government’s position untenable.

INCREASING DISQRDERS. 1 t=ea ' PRESS ASSOCIATION—UOI'YHIQJf'J? Reoeived 11.18 p.m., August 7. St. Petersburg, August 7, Members of the St. Petersburg committee of the Sooial Democratic party, also the committee of tho Shop Salesman UnioD, have been arrested. The strike in St. Petersburg restricts the editors to one joint paper daily, devoted exclusively to news. Sooial Democratic revolutionary members of the Duma have issued a fresh manifesto, urging a decisive struggle with the Czar’s Government by a general strike with the view of securing a constituent assembly and liberty. Reoeived 11.23 p,m., August 7. Tho Viborg manifesto is producing the effect that many peasants are refusing to pay taxes. Advioes reoeived from the central districts and tooth slate the peasants are pro j paring for'’widespread disorders after the oarvest. ' I Sixty revolutionary agitators at Odessa have started for different vMagpi. I A girl a-med with a brmo and fif esn Anarchists, including compositors, all ! armed with revolvers, seized a newspaper I office in the centre of Odessa. They locked up the proprietors and employees, and I printed a proclamation. They departed unmolested. As there is unrest among tho troops in I Odessa the authorities are G'orely watohinr? I them. B