UNHAPPY RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 793, 8 April 1905, Page 3

UNHAPPY RUSSIA.

PI Restrictions RemoYed. | A MOMENTOUS QUESTION, j PEACE OR WAR. J St. PETERSBURG, April C». flhe latest arrests of Anarchists inclujle the daughter of a former Go-vernor-General of St. Petersburg. Twelve secret police agents at Tsarskoe Selo havo been arrested. . Restrictions have bfcen removed agapnst the State employment ofi Polfs, except in the higher Mimsterial appointments. The; Russian reformers declare, ibat the Czar submits the question, jpeace or wair, to an assembly of sixty -three bishops at Moscow in May, as the autocracy fears the result of a consultation of the national representatives. It is understood that the Czar consults the bishops 011 i!;c minimum of political reform, wishing the church to act for him anil others to maintain the autocracy. Router's agency at St. Petersburg reports that the Government has forbidden the Zeinstvos to discuss steps In connection with the rescript cabled on March 4. DISORDER Ifl CAUCASIA. iSt. PETERSBURG, April 0. Sefglus' assassin has been identified asj the son of a police insprctor. Be isj a Jacquerie* Disorder prevails in the Caucasias. Peasants have destroyed the houses of priests, accusing thfcm of misusipg the public funds. (Jacquerie is a name given in contempt *| by the nobles to a revolt of the Ffench peasants in 1338.)