TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1903, 12 October 1906, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Bt. Petersburg, Ootober 10. Fivo terrorists at Lodz wire court* martiallrd and ebot to-day. Ali the operatives and tramway hands at Lodz have struck as a protest agamst drumhead oourt-mait’als.

Tho Council oi Professors of St. Petersburg University, by twenty to sixteen, resolved to ontertain tho British deputa*

During a roview of troops preceding the Czar’a oruieo, several bullets passed close to the Czar and members of the Imperial steff.

British residents in Russia Btrongly obj-ottolbe presentation of the British memorial at the present juncture. Russian reactionaries threaten violent counter demonstration?. An Dalian deputation is expected simultaneously with the British. Mr Smeaton, M.P., bBB withdrawn from the deputation. Mr Evans Gordon, M.?„ Mr W. T, Stead and others reoommend abandonment of the deputation. M. Stolypin, in an interview, stated that even if a hostile Douma was relumed .it would be permitted to aseemble, If its attitude was similar to the first Douma it would be dissolved. Tho prerogatives of thß Grown on fundamental laws ought to be respected. M. Btolypin stated that the Zemstvos, which until recently formed the strongholds of the opposition, were beginning to approve of the Government policy. London, Oat. 10.

The Daily Telegraph declares that a majoiiiy of tho signatories to the memorial to Russia would doubtless repudiate its presentation by such fussy nobodica as the British deputation.

BRITISH MEMORIAL.

PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received 9.22 p.m., October 11. St, Petersburg, Oct. 11,

M. Stolypin states that the British memorial is likely to unfavorably infiaenoe the growingly cordial relations of the two Empires. It is reported that the deputation hesitate to start for Russia,

M. Stolypm a?au r ed the party of paaoe* fa! regeneration that he wool! take meaburea to prevent reactionaries and terrorists organising and to give protection to Odessa.

In connection with a general strike at Lodz, a crowd of a thousand exhomed the bodies of five terrorists shot yesterday. Received 9.37 p.m , Ootober 11.

While collecting money to pay for coffios at Lodz, Oossßcks suddenly charged and wounded many. They arrested 30. The police arrested at Vilna twentythree revolutionaries, chiefly soldiers, who were trying to corrupt the army.