AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81843, 8 September 1906, Page 3

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

THE GOVERNMENT'S PROGRAMME. SURPRISINGLY FRANK STATE MENT. Received 7th, ij._t p.m. St. Petersburg. September 7The oHirial communique i'sued at Si. Petersburg is a surprisingly frank summary of the outbreaks, outrages and incitations to the army. It declare! the revolutionaries were striving by violence to impede the creative! activity of the State and over whelm the country with disaster, and must have been supported by extremists in the Douma, who endea VOUfed to usurp executive power. Revolutionaries were now seeking to frighten the Government by the mas •acre of officials, but the Government's aims were unalterable. This or that person may he killed, but it was impossible to kill the ideal in spiring the Government. Hence they must be met by force. The .communique proceeds to enumerate the except n nil measures and reforms cab'«d yesterday. BRITISHERS ARRESTED AND FLOCCED. ALONG WITH 20M POLES. FORTUNATE INTERVENTION. Received 7th, 9.15 p.m. St. Petersburg. September 7. Mr Kra-wr, the "Standard's" cor respondent, and his secretary, were among two thousand persons arresed at Warsaw, and conveyed to the yard of the Governor's palace, where t ey were beaten by Circassian Guards. The intervention of Genera! Scalon's adjutant probably a'one saved their live*. FORTRESS . COVERNOR SHOT REVOLUTIONARIES' PRISONERS ESCAPE. Received 7th, 11.30 p.m. St. Petersburg, September 7. Six soldiers shot the direoi of the fortress prison' at Warsaw and liberated fifty six revolutionary com mitteemen.