RUSSIAN CRISIS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7936, 9 January 1906, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISIS.

THE BALTIC PROVINCES. A FINANCIAL MISSION. Received January 8, 9 a.m. ST. EFTERSBURG. Jan. 7. Letts iu tbe Russian provinces destroyed numerous castles, including that of Ostensakon, which contained a priceless collection of paintings and other works of ar\ PARIS, January 7. The newspaper Le Matin reports that M. Kokovtsoff, Ruseiau Minister of Finance, has visited Paris to obtain a loan of three hundred million francs (about twelve millions sterling). M. Rouvier, the French Premier, refusod to accord State support owing to tho political situation. MARTIAL LAW IN'SIBERIA. Received January 9, 1.2 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 8. Martial law has been decreed in seventeen sections of the Siberian military districts bordering on the railway. WITTE'S OPTIMISM. FATHER GAPON'S ADVICE. ALL QUIET IN MOSCOW AND THE CAPITAL. Received January 8, 9.36 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 8. Count Witte, on being interviewed, declared that despite the gravity of the present crisis, Russia would emerge rejuvenated. Father Gapon, in a letter to the press, advises the Russian workers that their true aim is to obtain political liberties, but they must not espouse the cause of the intellectuals. All is quiet in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Rostoff, but the condition of the Baltic and Caucasian provinces still causes anxiety.