CIVIL WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8027, 13 January 1906, Page 2

CIVIL WAR.

COUNT DE WITTE'S OPTIMISM. THE MANCHURIAN ARMY. WILL SUPPRESS REVOLUTION, Received 13,12,10 a.m. St. Petkbbbubo, January 12. Count Do Witte declares tbat seventy per cent, of the Manchuriun Army is loyal. He believes it will suppress the revolution and secure complete p»ci« fioatiou. THE GOVERNMENT'S ATTI. TUDE. RADICAL CHANGES TOWABDS LIBERAL POLICY. STATUS OF THE~ARISTOCRACY, Received 13, 12,48 a.m. St. Petebshuho, January 12. A radical change is noticeable in the Russian Government's attitude tow«d» the Liberal Policy sinco the revolution was apparently moribund. The newspaper "Novoe Vremy» 1 ,, on Count do Witte's behalf, proclaim* that the manifesto of October 30th in nowise affects the status of the aristocracy. If the Douma attempts to meddle with the fundamental laws of thcJEmpirc, it will be dissolved. Owing to the franchise being widened by ten R nd fifteen fold beyond the original limits by the ukase of Dec., it has boon found necessary to recompose the lists of voters, delaying the assembly of the Douma until the end o{ April. The official communique implies that further strikes and disturbances will entail fresh postponement.

SEARCHING HOUSES. LETTERS CONTAINING EXPLOSIVES. A MILITARY PLOT. St. Pktehsbuho, January 11. Twelvo hundred domiciles in St. Petersburg were searched foi» arms. Tho police arrested all the occupants possessing knives, revolvers, and oven red cloth. Many letters containing explosives have been seut to prominent officials in St. Petersburg. Two civil servants were killed, while opening them. It|is reported a plot was discovered in St. Petersburg, eight artillery offi. | ccrs conspiring to blow up the Troitsky bridge, capture the fortress, and re. , lease the prisoners. 1 Ninety-eight mansions in the Eath- . land and Baltic provinces have;been , burned. > ScltulU, a tailor, and the so-called President of the Esthoninn Republic, I was arrested and shot in the Weesen- ,• sein district. I The pcasnnts nt Kherson arc rcstor. ■ ing the stolen estates. Trains arc again running in the cjal districts. A depot of dynamite and arms wan 1 discovered at Odessa. Many arrests 1 were made.