DISTURBED RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8153, 10 July 1906, Page 3

DISTURBED RUSSIA.

REACTIONARY FAVORS COXCESSIONS. A MASSACRE IN CONTEMPLATION. Bt. PfTERSBCEQ, July 8. General Trepoff (Goyernor of StPetersburg), a leading reactionary, interviewed at the Raja I Palace of Peterhof, said he favored the formation of a Ministry from the moderate elements of the iXioma in view of the argent necessity for pacifying the country. At present the Dcuma was limply used M a reyolntionary centre. A socialist proclamation at Warsaw warns the public that the authorities are preparing a vindictive massacre of Poles and Jews, Acts of provocation intended to lead to the declaration of a itate of aiege are in contemplation. The proclamation urges the preparation •f armed self-defence. PEASANTS RESISTING THE TROOPS. THE LAND PROBLEM. DOUJIA ADOPTING DEMOCBATIC POLICY. UPHEAVAL ATTRIBUTED TO JEWISH INTRIGUE. Received 9, 9.29 p.m. Bt. Pmembcbg, July 9. Fighting is reported from various parts of Russia, peasants armed with pitchforks and spades resisting the troops. The Agrarian committee of the Douma endorsed the first clause of the Constitutional Democratic programme, involving partial expropriation of private lands and appropriation of all State, Crown and ecclesiastical lands for the usufruct of the peasants. jQtami Trepoff, interviewed, attributed the upheaval principally to Jewish intrigues. He declared Uruaoff lied when he accused the authorities of inciting the massacre, though it was no wonder if the much provoked ifficials sometimes indulged in repriaals. He denied that the revolutionary ferment in the army was serious. "THE UNFORTUNATE WAR." ROZHDESTVENSKY ON HIS TRIAL Received 9, 9.29 p.m. St. PnEßSßrio, July 9. In connection with the trial oJ Admiral Rozhdestyenaky and the officers ot the Biedovy, tde Naval Prosecutor declared that the surrend -r of the destroyer was a disgrace unparalleled in history. He first stigmatised the accused as traitors, and demanded a death penalty. Counsel for the defence declared that the accused were only scapegoats of the unfortunate war, and claimed acquittal.