RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81840, 5 September 1906, Page 3

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

M. TREPOFF RETIRED. St. l'rrKEsncß ~ SeptemlKr 3. There arc persistent reports that (he Ciar has dismissed M. TrepofF, who is seriously ill, p'acing him on the retired list, thanking htm for hii fidelity and ordering hip a complete rest The •tepi eoasidered most sign.fi -ant at the present juncture.

A GENERAL SERIOUSLY WOUNDED. Hi. Pm»sßrEo, September 3. Unknown miscreants at Warsaw, wnei with rerolvers, seriously wjunded General Tremenkofi, who •uppressed the disturbances at Riga. Twenty-two death sentences recently imposed on the Sreaborg rioters, hare been commuted to servitude for life.

CZAR VIRTUALLY A PRISONER. >'xw York, September 3. The "New York World" St. Petersburg correspondent states that the Czar habitually wears a coat of mail, and takes exercise in a meadow surrounded by soldiers. Anyone approaching without leave is shot.

ARREBT OF MILITARY TERRORISTS. Received 4th, 10.19 p.m. St. Petersburg, September 4. Fourteen officers, one medical, were arrested at Odessa for conducting secret meetings of soldiers in connection with the military terrorist organisation, aiming at the extermination of all authorities.' Extensive correspondence with other revolutionary bodies was seized.

BHOOTINC IN PALACE CROUNDB. Received sth, 12.11 a.m. New Yorjc, September 4.. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the "New York World" state* that one of the Czarina's maids was shot by soldiers while approaching the Czar with a message. London, September 4. Reuter's St. Petersburg correspondent wires that all revolutionary organisations have combined iW/i a solid anti-Government b dy.