RUSSIA.
SCANDALOUSLY OVERCROWDED PRISONS. Received February 5, 8.40 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, February 4. The Moscow prisons aro holding four-fold the number which they were designed to accommodate, Mauy ot tho prisoners are boys of fourteen years of age, some are half-starved. The Prefect of St. Petersburg has withdrawn the prohibition against pcliticai workmen's meetings. TERRIBLE AGRARIAN CRISIS PREDICTED. ALL COSSACKS BEING MOBILISED. Received February 5. 9.25 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, February 5. The marshalls and the nobility concur in predicting fe terrible ugrariau crioiß in the spring. All the Cossacks are being mobilised.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7957, 6 February 1906, Page 5
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