RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81912, 27 December 1906, Page 3

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

AN .\>sa>, I NATION". roirnn-tiMixi; \hm\ kiijiions Si. I',-i,t-!,h-%-. 1).r,-,i1. ( .,• ■>:;. I'.Tiatii-II v.jis -ittin;.' with other member* in ;> refi---! iue"t roor.i whet a youth lir--;I four revolver aho: i at him. ({.-nat'icfTa eol!.;i;:iic» parried the who uitvr.iptid suicide, but was eanturcd. Ice j.rir.tiag woiks at Moscow hare liecn warned that they vil! be closed if lupv jjriat electoral notices for the ttmililutitiul IX'mocrats. The Liberal I're=» of .St. I'etersbur c ' i» denouncing the ruthless persecution if omionents to th,' (Jovrrmurnt. Intimation has lx.cn made that the elections for the Duuu are fixed for the 9th February. extremists' yexgeaxce. :>ax«;lin'ai;y hepressjox POLICY. AltflfM' UK CZAU'.S CIAIUJS. H-ehed -J-ltt!. 10.25 (~„,. Lomh.n. December H. He lit. r -l.il s tlat Ifiiiitieff's a-sas-sin declared he liad ex. rati d the K.\ trenii-t-.' resolution, which wan rallied .„. .1... mi.

f. nil the 10' h. ,t The Telegraph's St. lVterslini-K coro respondent states that ti:e Zenistvo [i at Tver, hitherto mix radical in itus>l «iu, recently liecatu•• Conservative, and elected reactionaries like Ijiiialicli 1 . hence the revolutionaries' vengeance. St. Peter-bur;.', December 24. Field eourtuiartial executed 57 during the week, and there were 43 JKilitical outrages during t4ie week. The Liberal! Dciv-|M]xrs emphasis the failure of the sanguinary repression to deter Socialists. Several of the Coir's guards have , been arrested at Taarkue Sclo.

AX ADMIRAL SExNTiLN'CED TO' MATH. THK KAVAL DISASTEE AT TSUSHIMA. Received 20, 0.42 a.m. Si. Pmeesbirg, December 25. Admiral >'ebogatoff, who was captured by the Japanese wjtli seven thousand men at 1 the battle of Tsushima, and the commanders of three battleships, not including the Orel, have been condemned to death. In view, however, of extenuating circumstances, and the accused's many yean of blameless service, the Czar has been recommended to commute the sentences m every case to imprisonment for a decade in a fortress. Of the other officers concerned four were sentenced to from two to four months' imprisonment in a fortress and the remainder were acquitted. SCAPEGOAT FOR MORE GUILTY PEHSO.XAGES. Received 26, 10.37 p.m. Londox, December 26. " The Times" says the sentence on Admiral Kieb»gatoff will be considered, outside Russia, as severe, even vindictive. It is difficult, says " The Times," to resist the suspicious that he has been made a scapegoat for much-more- i guilty, highly-placed personages, who really lost the battle, though they never led the fleet half across tha world, nor navigated the seas of Japan. THE LAND PROBLEM. CZAR'S ILL-CONSIDERED DECREE. ; ITS OBJECT DEFEATED. Received 26, 11.25 p.m Los do.v, December 26. The "Standard's" Moscow correspondent says the Czar's hastily concocted dccrci- abolishing the Mujiks' community of ownership of land is adversely commented on. Eighty million peasants arc affected, but only a certain number of the prosperous belonging to the favourites of the local authorities who, in return for servile obedience, helped them to accumulate illicit gains for a generation past, will become freeholders of the best land, which, by various devices, they secured in recent years. The majority of the rural inhabitants forego ownership, and became proletarians, dangerous to the State as urban people, inasmuch as previous ties will cease owing to their inability to secure quantity and quality of land sufficient to keep them alive STTJDEM'S SECURITY ESTREATED.

Received 26, 11.25 p.m. i St Peteksbceo. December 26, Ignotiff's assassin is named Tidier. A Moscow student, implicated in insurrection, for which he did not appear for trial, though bound over for 10,000 roubles to be of good behavious. That mm has now been estreated.