RUSSIA.
AN INHUMAN DESPATCH. LIBERAL LAND POLICY. St. Fetersbccg, February 11. The newspaper " Vorwarts " published M. Durnovo's secret despatch instructing Governors lo exterminate nnd not arrest rioters and burn their homes, and saying that it was imperative to oppose the monstrous despotism of the revolutionaries by the strongest remedies or the Empire would be ruined. The Times' St Petersburg correspondent states that it is intended to pur chase eight million acres of private land for allotment among ]>casants> paying the owners in bonds yielding five per cent. Six masked revolutionaries entered a savings bank at St. Petersburg and fired 30 shgts, demanding cash. They killed a policeman and wounded three depositors. A cashier felled one of the revolutionaries. The latter was arrested, but the rest tied.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8051, 16 February 1906, Page 3
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126RUSSIA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8051, 16 February 1906, Page 3
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