RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.
St. Petersburg, March 30. The police arrested ten members of the Revoluntionary Fighting Committee at Reval, a naval station on the Baltic, 232 miles south-west of the capital. A quantity of arms and ammunition and a stove ol strychinine were seized. together willi a quantity of hollow bullets which were ready to lie tilled with poison. A plan was unearthed by the police providing for the distribution of booty by the revolutionaries on the following basis:—
The committee to retain three-tenths of all booty seized, up to one thousand roubles; six-tenths up to ten thousand roubles, and two-thirds in the event of higher amounts being secured; the remainder to be divided among the members of the organisation. Received Ist, 9.55 p.m. St. Petersburg, April 1.
A quarter of a million Jews left Russia during 1000 to avoid persecution. The St. Petersburg newspaper "Grasiiuanin" declares that the determination of the Government to maintain field courts-martial for another month is an indication of their intention to dissolve the Douina.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 2 April 1907, Page 3
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169RUSSIAN AFFAIRS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 2 April 1907, Page 3
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