RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8102, 23 March 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE BANK ROBBERY AT MOSCOW. CHECKING AN ALARM, Received March 22, 8.26 a.m. LONDON, Maroh 21. The Moscow correspondent of the Daily Express reports that after over-powering the bank guards, the gang placed a large infernal maohiue in the middle of the building, threatening to blow the place up if the slightest attempt was made to raise an alarm. The robbers looked the clerks in the inber rooms while they ransacked the desks and safes. The whole operation only occupied fifteen minutes. AGRARIAN DISTURBANCES. EIGHT HUNDRED HOUSES BURNED. Reoeived Maroh 21', 9.44 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG. Maroh 21. The Russian Government Commission estimates that the agrarian disturbances in twenty provinces, excluding Courland and Livonia, oaused damage to landlords to the extent of £5,200,000 sterling. Eight hundred houses belonging to German landlords in the Baltic provinces were burned. LIEUTENANT SCHMIDT'S EXECUTION. SCHOOLS AT ODESSA STRIKE AS A PROTEST. BLACK FLAG HOISTED BY SAILORS. BOMBARDMENT OP VESSELS THREATENED. Reoeived Maroh 22, 11.55 p.m.

ST. PETERSBURG, Maroh 22. The High Schools, ac Odessa, have struck, as a protest against Lieutenant Schmidt's execution. Two thousand sailors at Sevastopol hoisted the blaok Hag as a token of mourning. Admiral Chukhain ordered the bombardment of the vessels, but countermanded the order on reoeipt of instructions from St. Petersburg. AN EDITOR IMPRISONED. HIS PAPER PERMANENTLY SUPPRESSED. Received Maroh 22, 9.43 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Maroh 22." The editor of the newspaper Novosti has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment for offenoes against the press laws. Tbe paper itself has been permanently suppressed.