THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81849, 24 September 1906, Page 3

THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

PROMISES OF REFORM. A HE VOLUTION AUY VENDETTA PEASANTS? REFUSE TO PAY TAXES. St. Petbssbi eo, September 21. Yielding to pressure M. Stolypine, the Premier, promised that there ihould be do more Jewish massacres and ordered that Jewish prisoners at Seidlice should have a civil trial. He declared he would legislative to remove •omc of the Jewiih disabilities, though the Douma would be allowed to refuse such proposals. The execution of the girl Konoplian. nikova has enraged revolutionaries, who are circulating broadeast a manifesto Towing to remove, one after another all the props of the cowardly, murderous autocracy. The manifesto especially denounces the Czar's clinging to power while refusing his subjects the smallest share. The Russian Imperial Bank rate is 12 per cent, the same as during the run in January. The Odessa District Zemstvo has informed the Governor that everything is at a standstill owing to the peasants' refusal to pay rural taxes.

THE PLOT AGAINST THE CZAR PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES. SEABCHLIGHTS AROUND THE PALACE. Received 23, 4.25 p.m. Losdon, September 22. Beater's St. Petersburg correspondent reports that in consequence of t lie recently discovered plot against lie Csar'i life, searchlights are constantly employed nightly on both the sea and land sides of Pcterhof Palace. A DEEP LAID PLOT. CONCOCTED WITHIN TILE PALACE. MANY ARRESTS MADE. Received 23, 4.25 p.m. Many arrests were ra.idein St. Petersburg in conneeti-'ii with the plot, which was a deep laid one, concocted in the Palace itself by Terrorists. The only detail that has beeu published regarding the plot is that a motor car was seized, the occupants of which were found to be armed.

TERRORISTS' ACTIVITV. - CZAR CONDEMNED TO DEATH MOST DESPERATE AGENTS EMPLOYED. WHOLE DYNASTY TO BE • WIPED OUT. ! Received 23, 4 2d p.m. L*N! o.n, September 22. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the '• Daily Express'" states that Terrorist* sentenced the C.nr to death and have sent their most desperate agents to. Finland. It i> sta[ed the Terrorists are deter mined to destroy, the whole Russian dynasty.