RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81862, 11 October 1906, Page 2

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

FREEDOM OF WOIiSHIP PROMISED.

St. Pktbbshubo, October 9. M Stolypin lius piomiscd a law conerring unrestricted freedom on dissent' as churches, also the right or registerug marriages, births iiud deaths

A bomb wounded General Dumbad' e, commander of the trt ops at Sevastopol. The perpetrators were chased and ought their way through the police. Kobiu Hood gangs, called "The tirethren ot the Forest," are overruling the Baltic Provinces, and giving re•eipts for everything confiscated.

BRITISH DELEGATES SNUBBED.

ODESSA JEWS PANIC-STRICKEN A WEEK OF EXECUTIONS.

Received loth, 9.34 p.m. St. Petersburg, October 10. The Prefect of Moscow refused to ennit a public reception to the Briish deputation to tho Douma. The Jews at Odessa are panicstricken owing to M, Dubrovin, president of the Union of Russian Pcoile, inciting three hundred of his fol'owera to exterminate all rebels and ews, declaring the Russians wanted] neither Constitutions nor a Parliament, but only orthodoxy and auto:racy. The Prefect prevented disurbanccs.

There were over one hundred executions in Russia, chiefly in Poland, luring the last six days.

BRITISH INTERFERENCE RESENTED. Received 10th, 10.54 P-m. St. Petersburg, October 10. British residents of St. Petersburgind the Embassy have received threatening letters declaring that in connection with tho memorial to the* )euma Briti h interference will not be tolerated.