Russia.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3699, 12 July 1906, Page 3

Russia.

WARNING BY THE DUMA. THE MURMURS OF THE COMING STORM. TREPOFF’S SCHEME. St. Petersburg, July io. The Czar has thanked the troops in fulsome terms for their splendid and tireless devotion at Blelostock. A heated debate took place in the Duma yesterday on the report of the Duma’s Commission of Inquiry into the recent massacres of Jews at Bielostock. The Government was warned of the grave danger of turning a deaf ear to the murmurs of the coming storm, which threatened a terrible explosion, involving tremendous consequences. The leaders of the Constitutional Democratic party declare that the two cardinal points of their programme are the selection of a Ministry from the majority in the Duma and the acceptance of the principle of partial expropriation as a solution of the agrarian problem. The party does not insist on the immediate introduction of Parliamentary Government. General Trepoff’s suggestion for the formation of a Constitutional Democratic Cabinet is believed to have emanated from higher circles. It has aroused intense interest. Count Heyden, M. Milnikoff, and other leaders of the Duma consider the idea opportune.

TRAIN-WRECKERS. St. Petersburg,- July 10. Twenty armed men expelled a picket guarding a railway bridge over the river Vistula, and then attempted to dynamite the structure. Reinforcements arrived and drove the miscreants off before! the dynamite exploded.

MUTINY OF TROOPS. SOCIALISTS AND COSSACKS FIGHT AT LODZ. DESPERATE ENCOUNTER. St. Petersburg, July 9. The fourth battalion of the Odessa Regiment has mutinied at Kief?, and has appealed to the whole regiment to join them as a protest against the rotten food served out to the men, and against the commanders’ tyranny. Eight armed Socialists looted a spirit shop at Lodz (Poland). Four Cossacks pursued the offenders into a rye Held, where they fought for six hours. Three of the Socialists were killed, and the remaining five wounded. One Cossack was injured.