DISORDERS IN RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8149, 5 July 1906, Page 2

DISORDERS IN RUSSIA.

BELIEF FOR FAMINE DISTRICTS. DISAFFECTION AMONGST TROOPS FURTHER ASSASSINATIONS. St. Pbibbsbcbq, J ily 3. The Government has asked the Djuma to vote £10,000,000 for the re. lief of the famine districts. Some artillery corps near Moscow have been transferred to Smolensk for' participating in politics. The troops at Vladikavdaj have been disb'anded. One of the dangers of the general situation is the possibility of the army being divided against itself. General Bogdanovitch, an anti-Semi-tic pamphleteer, has banked a quarter if a million sterling abroad The Minister for War has ordered i he offiserß at Bielostoek to be severely lealt with if the newspaper charges ire confirmed. An infantry captain, a gendarme, ind five policemen were shot dead in vVarsaw yesterday, and two poliee sergeants to-day. The terrorists escaped. Che police are now withdrawn from the streets, which arc patrolled by infantry. The newspaper Russky ViedomgtJj states that the decision to disperse the Oouma and arrest fourteen labour members, who had signed an appeal to to nition, was abandoned after the ie British Ambassador's audience .vith the Czar. 30YERNMENT LAND SETTLE MENT PROPOSALS. . DOUMA ABSOLUTELY INDIFFERENT. Received 4, 8.58 p m, St. Petebsbpbo, July 4. An Official Communique issued at St. Petersburg Bhows that the Government propose to hand to the peasants, ' on easy terms, all arable Crown lands, ' ind to purchase any private properties offering, reselling them to peasants at ' low prices. The Government will support migration of the peasantry, simplify the formalities of land purchase, ind promote emigration to Siberia and Central Asia, They claim that their Tieasures will bring effectual relief to lie peasantry, while the expropriation if private lands would ruin the peasants. The Douma apparently regards the Government's scheme with absolute indifference.