AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81861, 10 October 1906, Page 3

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

THE NEXT DOUMA. REASSURING STATEMENT BV THE PREMIER. Received gt'a, g.2S p.m. St. Petersburg, October g. M Stolypin informed an interviewer that the Douma is t'> meet on Februaiy 20. He considered the slate of revolution had ceased. It was exaggeration to use such words as Anarchy or Jacquerie. BRITISH MEMORIAL TO THE DOUMA. Received yth, 9.2S p.m. London, October g. The British deputation conveying the memorial to the 'ate Douma includes Messrs Scott, Roberison, Montgomery, and Steadman, members of t'.it- Hou-<: of Commons Three hundred Commoners, chiefly Liberals and Labourites, most of the Trades Uni--0.1 officials, many members of the London County Council, five Bishops, and many mayors and authors signed thj memorial. A SENSATIONAL TRIAL. JUDGES IGNORED. Received gth, g.46 p.m. St. Petersburg, October g. During the trial at St Petersburg of the Council of Workmen's Delegates, M. Krastaleff, president of the Council, addressed the Court, declaring that the Government was really trying two hundied thousand workmen. who had siriven for political economic reforms by pacific means. The Government ought to be placed on tiial for causing a revolution, since t'v: workmen had been forced into acier and the revolution would continue. Many witnesses refused to take the oath and osteniatiously ignored the Judges-