RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81864, 13 October 1906, Page 2

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

THE OUTI3EBAK Ar LODZ. UNPOPULAR BRITISH DEPU. TATION. BLACK HUNDRED ACTIVE. St. Peteesbuiig, October 11. There liaye been wholesale arrests of suspects at Lodz. Strong detachments of troops guard the streets. General Dumbitdze's assailant has been arrested. (General Dumbadze, Commander of the troops at Sevastopol, was wounded by the explosion of a bomb.) It is expected that a procession with ikons and a banner will demonstrate against the British deputation to the \ Douina on arrival,

Ihe St. Petersburg Black Hundred ;hreatens violence.

The Black Hundred emissaries in Finland are plotting outbreaks to render the position of General Gerhard, the Governor-General, impossible.

CONSTITUTIONA DEMOCRATS' CONFERENCE. A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. Received 12th, 9.37 p.m. St. Petersburg, October 12. The Congress of Russian Constitutional Democrats split into three groups. The Left, consisting of 35 advocates of an immediate resort to passivo resistance, the Centre group of one hundred accepts the Viborg manifesto, and considers it advisable to delay passive resistance, while the Right group regards the Viborg manifesto as a political mistake. The difference has not caused secessions,; THE BRITISH MANIFESTO., PUBLIC PRESENTATION ABANDONED. Received 12th, 9.58 p.m. St. Petersburg, October 12. Owing to misrepresentation and attacks, the British deputation has ab- 1 andoned tho idea of a public presentation of the memorial and request the St. Petersburg committee to arrange for a private presentation to the Douma. Only one or two members of the deputation proceed to St. Petersburg.