RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81882, 6 November 1906, Page 3

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

THE CONSTITUTIONS ACHIENEMENiS. TERRORISM STILL PREVAILS. St. Petersburg. November 4St. Petersburg newspaper* e-timate that the first year of the const.tuaon resulted in 1513 executions, 523 newspaper suspensions, 647 editor-, piosetuted, 242 bomb outrages, and <j4u robber es from public institutions. Gerschuni, founder of the organisation wh.ch killed M.M. Sipiaguine. Bogoliefoff, and de Plehve, escaped horn a convicts" prison in S.beria concealed in a water-butt. Two girls were shot at Kron»tadt because a hangman was not procurable. -v^__ The Times' St. Petersburg correspondent says the main object of summary court-martial—the extirpation of terrorism—has not been achieved, though three hundred have been executed in two months. STUDENTS EXPELLED FROM THE CAPITAL. Received sth, 10.10 p.m. St. Petersburg, November 5. Despite the protest of the rector and council of St. Petersburg Univers.ty. the Prefect of Police refused to permit student* to attend university lectures, and expelled them from the capital..

TREASURY VAN ROBBERY. FURTHER ARRESTS MADE. Received sth, 10.6 p.m. St. Petersburg, November 5. Fifteen more arrests have been made in connection with the robbery of a St. Petersburg Treasury van. The leaders of the gang were connected with the recent outrage at M. Stolypin's house.