RUSSIA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8937, 1 October 1907, Page 2

RUSSIA.

Desperadoes Raid Barracks

Press Association. —Copyright. Sr, Pbtebsbubg, September 30.

Three men, disguised in officers uniforms, rushed the barracks of a regiment at Sevastopol shouting tg the battalion on duty that the commander of tho regiment had been killed and tho officers made prisoners, arm implored the soldiers to rf souo them. The battalion’s commander shouted that those men wove imposters. Tho throe strangers imuicuiatply prod wounding 'the commander and another officer, and then escaped pretending they were pursuing the persons who tired. Six officers were' killed during tpe incident at Sevastopol barracks.

The Douma Eisetions,

St. ParaLvniujui, September 30. Tho electors of Moscow and St. Petersburg display remarkable apathy toivarcu the new Douma. In many centres tho number of voters is insufficient ,to justify elections. In. one district only fiye out ol 1480 on tho rolls voted. Opposition can? didates were chiefly returned.