TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1844, 27 August 1906, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

MILITARY DICTATOR3HIP BEING ARRANGED.

TIUSSS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Bt. Petersburg, August 24. Sevornl police emissaries havo been murdorrd in various parts of Russia. London, August 24. Router etatoe that hundreds of thousands of roubles are being stolen daily from railway stations, trams, banks, and factories. Fourteen hundred pounds sterling was stolen from the goods station at Kuzan.

Rconyed 4,37 p.m., August 26. London, Augu-t-25 According to tbo Tribune peasants have eiuoa November la-t purchased on the instalment system through the Imperial Peasant Land Bank five million acres for twenty million sterling. There has boon a grrat rush for land during the past fortnight, but wbethor instalments wili bo forthcoming hereafter is problematical. Tbo Standard's correspondent etateß that a quartor of a million Jews, mainly from southern and south-western Russia, have emigrated during the first half of the present year, compared with 183,622 for the whole of last year. St. Petersburg, August 25. A telegram states that the authorities, apparently preparatory to the establishment of a military dictatorship, are despatching enormous quantises of ammunition to Poland and the Caucasus. Two sapper battalions at Moroyboka, near Odessa, became mutinous, and de cided that if summoned against revolutionaries they will not fire upon them. Upon opening a mail bag which originally contained registered packages for St. Petersburg from Eriyan, it was do covered that £14,840 had been abstracted and packages of leal substituted. The seals were intact.