CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3615, 30 January 1906, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

Unhappy Russia-

London, Jan. 26,

Reuter’s St. Petersburg correspondent states that the revolutionary movement in the Caucasus is declining. A congress of Polish revolutionists held in Finland, resolved to discountenance any revolutionary action until April 4th, when they will resume the struggle with the peasantry. St. Petersburg, Jan. 26;

The Russian Government is considering the initiation of vast public works to relieve the starving peasants. An American firm offers to construct a Baltic-Black Sea canal, from Riga to Kherstan, at a cost of forty millions sterling. The police have arrested several members of the Terrorist Organisation at St. Petersburg. They seized documents showing that it, was intended to kill Count Witte! Many sugar refiners at Kief have dismissed thousands of workmen holding advanced opinions.

A GENERAL WOUNDEE

PLOT TO KILL DE WITTE. St. Petersburg, Jan. 28., . Sailors and some at Vladivostock ; a utinied, and used quickf; fe rs and rifles. They wounded General Solinavoff, commander of the fortress, in the neck and chest, just as he had finished parleying with them. Considerable disturbances and fighting took place in connection with the release of two prisoners. Ten mutineers were killed and forty-two wounded. Revolutionaries at Penza have informed M. Prosoronski, chief of the gendarmeries there, that M. Livovsky was assassinated by mistake, and the error will shortly be rectified by the assassination of M. Prosoronski.

The police have arrested several members of a terrorist organisation in St. Petersburg, and seized documents showing that it was intended to kill Count de Witte, the Czar’s chief Minister.

A large sugar refining firm at Kieff has dismissed’ thousands of workmen on account of their holding advanced opinions.