TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1929, 10 November 1906, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT London, Nov. 7 The “ Novoe Vremya ” states that the Treasury has disbursed £157,000,000 on tho war in the Far East towards the total of £175,000,000, and £18,000,000 still remains unpaid

London, Nov. 8,

The Governor refuses to permit auy ’election meetings at Odessa. The officials of the electoral commission threatened to resign, alleging that their work is useless without meetings, No revolutionary organisation exists at Moscow, all the principal leaders having been arrested.

Twenty robbers captured the mail van at Werchanednieprovsk. They wounded the driver and a policeman, and decamped with 63,000 roubles. The party of peaceful regeneration, which opposes all unconstitutional government, appeals to the Duma electors to oppose tho remnant of the administrative regime, and revolutionary anarchy, which constitute two disintegrating forces impeding the work of reconstruction.

AN INCOME TAX.

PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 8.5 a.m., Nov 9. St. Petersburg, Nov 8. The Russian Council of Ministers approved of the graduated income tax, which is calculated to produce twenty to forty million roubles annually. Incomes under a thousand roubles are exempt. Those at a thousand pay one per cent, for each thousand up to thirty thousand; above thirty thousand four per cent.; one hundred thousand five per cent, Received 9.40 p,m„ Nov 9, St. Petersburg, Nov 9. A band of terrorists by means of bombs wrecked a train outside Kogoff, killing and wounding many. They decamped with a million roubles. Most of the electors arc indifferent over the Douma elections since the Government are determined to prevent free elections. Only the extreme left and right display activity.