TROUBLED RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8168, 30 July 1906, Page 2

TROUBLED RUSSIA.

CALM BEFORU THE STORM. London, July 27. The "Tillies'" at. Petersburg correspondent slaLes that the extraordinary tranquility prevailing in the capital is more portentous than a hundred revolutionary processions. Ere many weeks are passed the emancipatory movement will begin. REVOLUTIONARIES ROB A TRAIN. St. Petjsrsbubo, July 27. Revolutionaries stopped a train on the Vistula railway, near Warsaw. I 1 and, after killing the guard, stole fifteen thousand roublos. 1 ; COUM WITTE INTERVIEWED. BRITISH PREMIER'S "REGRET. TABLE" UTTERANCE, s 1 Beceived 29, 4.54 p.m. J London, July 28. j The ''Daily Telegraph" publishes _ an interview with Count Witte. The 0 ex-Russian Premier declared it was a e mistake that reforms had not long r since been introduced. In the first 1 place, the peasants, he said, need the , right to personal property, and in the r second place it was the bounden duty n of tho State to supply the peasants with moro land. But the Duma was vvrong, and the Government was comit polled to chose between revolution, organised under cover of legality, and dissolution. The Czar will, in a few s months, conyoke a new Duma.

He further stated that the majority of foreign |Sfcatesmen had adopted a correct attitude towards Russia in her present trials. He declined to believe that one regrettable exception expressed the true feeling of the English. A SENSATIONAL "HOLD UP." KILL A NUMBER OF PASSENGERS. Received 30,12.31 a.m. London, July 29. Ten Polish revolutionaries held up a train with a saloon carriage conveying General Zukato, Chief of the Frontier Guards, General Westenring, Chief o! Warsaw Customs and six other officials The guards and occupants of the saloon were shot dead, including the Generals The revolutionaries escaped with fifteen thousand roubles, after woundin c several other passengers. REVOLUTION PLANS. DISCOVERED IN NEWSPAPER OFFICE. Received 30, 12,31 a.m. London, July 29. The " Novoe-Vremya" states thai jompleto plans of an insurrection, enumerating participating organisations, were found in the newspaper •' Mysl's " building. GENERAL STRIKE ORGANISING CIRCULATING DUMA'S MANIFESTO. JOY IN THE CHURCH. (Received 29th, 4.54 p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, July 28. The Socialists in Russia are organising the working masses lor ; general strike, though the joint con [ereiice of revolutionary committees, held on the i-order of Finland, resolved not to declare a strike at present.

The manifesto which was issued b\ tie members of the Duma at Viborg, 's ciiculating in. immense numoeis, the printers eluding the vigilance of the police.