RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81832, 27 August 1906, Page 3

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

ANOTHER MAIL BAG ROBBERY

LATEST CABLE NEWS. PJtITED PBESS ASSOCIATION. BY ILECTBIC TELEOHAPH. —COPYKIU'.IT

POLICE MURDERS CONTINUE. WHOLESALE ROBBERIES. St. Fetersiicbg, August 21. Several police cirssarics have been murdered in various paris of liussia. Loxi'ox, August 21. Beuter slates that one hunrlreJ thousand roubles are stolen daily from railway stations, trains, banks, and at- tones. Fou.veen hundred pounds sterling *as jtoleu from the goods station a Kazan. LANDS FOR SETTLEMENT POLICY. EXTENSIVELY AVAILED OF. REPAYMENT BY PEASANTS PROBLEMATICAL. Received 26th, 4.37 p.m. LONDON, August 25, According to the "Tribune," peasants have since November last purchased on the instalment system, through the Imperial Peasant Land Bank, five milliu4 acres for twentytwo millions steeling. There has been a great rush for land during the past fortnight, but whether the instalments will be forthcoming hereafter is problematical

JEWISH EMIGRATION

AN INCREASING EXODUS. Received 26th, 4.37 p.m. LONDON, August 25. The "Standard" states a quarter of a million Jews, mainly from southern and south-western Russia, have emigrated during the first half of the present year, compared with one hundred and eighty three thousand six hundred and twenty two for the whole of last year.

A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP. PORTENTOUS PREPARATIONS. SAPPER BATTALIONS MUTINOUS. Received 26th, 4.37 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 25. A telegram states that the authorities, apparently preparatory to the establishment of a military dictatorship, arc dispatching enormous quantities of ammunition to Poland and the Caucasus.

Two sapper battalions at Moroyooka, ntur Odessa, are mutinous, and decided if they are summoned against the revolutionaries that they will not fire upon them.

£14,000 ABSTRACTED.

Received 26th, 4.37 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 25. Upon opening a mail bag which had originally contained registered packages for St. Petersburg from Envan, it was discovered that fourteen thousand eight hundred and forty sterling had been abstracted, and packages of lead substituted. The seals were intact. SHOCKING BOMB OUTRAGE. PREMIER STOLYPIN'S HOUSE WRECKED. PREMATURE EXPLOSION DURING A RECEPTION. 23 KILLED AND 27 INJURED.

STOLYPIN'S FORTUNATE ESCAPE.

Received 27th, 1.5 a.m.

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 26.

The Premier, M. Stolypin, was holding a reception at his villa on Apothecary Island, the rooms being crowded, when four men drove up in a carriage and pair. Two were dressed as officers, one carrying a bomb in his helmet, which he dropped accidentally in an ante-chamber. A terrible explosion followed, the whole centre of the house being blown out. Twenty-three persons were killed, including all four conspirators, and 27 were injured. M. Stolypin's 15 year old daughter, who was upstairs, had both her legs shfattered. They had to be amputated, but the girl afterwards succumbed. An infant snn had his leg broken.

M. DandnfT. Court Chamberlain, and M. Coostoff, ex-Governor of Penfla, were killed.

M. Stolypin was uninjured, though the door of his room was torn from its hinge;.