TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1920, 1 November 1906, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT St. Petersburg, Oct. 80. A ukase was issued to-day—which is the anniversary of the granting of the Russian constitution —removing ail. restrictions frern the Old Believers, who number 15 millions, M. Stolypin has ulso dcoided to recognise the party of peaceful regeneration. Three of tbs officials entrusted with the money captured in the S'. Petersburg raid have been arrested ou a charge of connivance. They jumped from the carriage directly the bomb was thrown, and fled without attempting to save the treasure. Ten masked revolutionaries entered a gambling club at Chita, a town on the Siberian railway, about 400 miles east of j Lake Baikal, and seized stakes amounting to about 12,000 roubles. Another band, overpowering the escort robbed a Treasury waggon in a wood near Kayan, in Eastern Russia, oapturing 26,000 roubles.

MURDER OF A SCOTTISH FOREMAN,

PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Reoeived 1.5 a.m., Nov. 1. St. Petersburg, Oct. 31, Eight of those concerned in the treasury carriage robbery at Bt. Petersburg were oourt-martialled and executed at Oar nelfif. A workman at Ooates’s thread mill at St. Petersburg murdered Sheridan, a Scottish foreman. The murderer has not been arrested. The crime is intended to strike terror owing to the arrests of revolutionary employees at the mill. Sheridan leaves a'~widow and five ohildreD. I The British Ambassador demanded the aotive safeguarding of lives of British employees.