RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81863, 12 October 1906, Page 2

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

THE BRITISH MEMORIAL,

AM UNPOPLAR DEPUTATION.

St. Petersburg, October 10. p c " unc, l and professors of tho ' * tr ', rsb " r G' University, bv 20 to Jepmatt t0 eniC ' tain ' h "' Briti3h cJe* M° nd ° n Daily telegraph dedares the majority of the signatories to he memorial would doubtless re . pudiaie its presentation by such fussy I nobodies as the British deputation. ■ British residents i n Russia stronglj object 10 the presentation of the memorial ai the present juncture. Russ.an reactionaries threaten vioKm cojnlGr-dpmonßtrationa. .An Italian deputation was expected simultaneously with the British Mr tlie" dt" I 't llas wil ' lclra wn from the dfcputatoin, and Messrs' Evans Gordon, M.P.. W. T • * others rocommend its abandonment!

CORDIAL RELATIONS JEOPARDISED.

Received nth, 9.22 p.m. m t- t S , U Pelcrsbur B'< October 11. M. stolypin states that the British m mortal is likely i 0 unfavourably in-' fluence the growmgly coidial lelations between the two Empires. THE SITUATION AT LODZ. Received llthj g-22 p Tn „ St ' P . elersbur fi' October n. In connection with the genenl COSSACK EXCESSES. ARREST OF REVOLUTIONARIES. Received nth, g.37 p. mWl,iu St -,F e:< ? rSbUrfi ' october "• UniJc collecting- money to uav for colhns at Lodz, Cossacks sudJenW risTef 30 W ° Undl!d and J. The polico arrested at Vilna 21 revolutionaries, chiefly soldiers, who wero uying to corrupt the army.