CABLE NEWS.
Unnappy Russia
St Petersburg, Feb. 14,
Six masked revolutionaries entered the savings bank at St. Petersburg and fired thirty shotSj demanding the cash. They killed a policeman and wounded three depositors. The cashier felled one of the revolutionaries and the rest fled. The teoldiers at Tiflis arrested and searched the Turkish ConsulGeneral.
The newspapers Vorwarts has published M. Durnovo’s secret despatch instructing governors of provinces to exterminate and not arrest rioters and to bum their homes. The dispatch says it is imperative to oppose the monstrous despotism of the revolutionaries by the strongest remedies or the empire will de ruined. London, Feb. 14.
The Times’ St Petersburg correspondent states it is intended to purchase eight million acres of private lands for allotment to peasants, paying the owners in bonds yielding five per cent.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3613, 17 February 1906, Page 3
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135CABLE NEWS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3613, 17 February 1906, Page 3
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