RUSSIA.
/ DARING SCHOOLBOYS
STICK UP A BANK
Received April 11, 9.45 a.m. ST. PETERSMUR.i, April 10,
Four schoolboys in broad daylight stuck up a bapk. at Kharknif, 480 miles south of Moscow, and shot a policetDPn. They were captured while carrying olf loot.
A NINETY-TWO MILLION LOAN.
Received April 11, 9.57 a.m. LONDON, April 10
The St. Petersburg correspondent of The Times learns that Russia is issuing a five per cent, loan of ninety-two millions sterling, at the price of 85.
Bankers alone are invited to subscribe, France taking fifty millions, London, Amsterdam and New York four millions each, ani]*- Russian banks thirtyjnillions instead of Berlin. The sum of twenty five millions out of the total is required to pay recent issues of short-dated bonds. Tho balance will not suffice to pay expenses of the war and famine, and to meet the deficit iu the Budget.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8118, 12 April 1906, Page 5
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