RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8165, 23 June 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

PORTION OF SEVASTOPOL GARRISON MUTINIES.

PRISON OFFICIALS WOUNDED,

Received June 22, 8.9 a.m.

ST. PETERSBURG, June 21.

A portion of the Sevastopol garrison mutinied. They seized three guns, but were d : sa"med without any fighting tatting place. A bomb wounded M. Humbert, the unpopular governor of the Kovno prison, and grievously wounded the deputy-governor. JEWS LEAVING THE COUNTRY. Reoeived June 22, 9.5 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Jane 21. Thousands of Jews are fleeing towards Austria and Germany. BRITISH GOVERNMENT CANNOT INTERFERE. Reoeived June 22, 9.15 a.m. LONDON, June 21. Mr Runciman, replying in the House of Commons on behalf of Sir Edward Grey, said tbe Government cannot interfere respecting the massacre of Jews in Russia. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGE. Received June 22, 9,15 a.m. NEW YORK, June 21. President Roosevelt sent a sympathetic message to a meeting of Jews in New York, but declared that official aotion was impracticable. THE BIELOSTOK MASSACRES. INSTIGATED BY MINOR POLICE OFFICERS. STORMY SCENES JN THE DUMA. A REMARKABLE SPEECH. ANGRY DEMONSTRATIONS. THE SITTING SUSPENDED. Reoeived Jane 22, 9.39 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, June 22. M. SbohepKin, one of the Duma's Commissioners, has obtained evidence that minor polioe officials instigated and organised the Bielostok massacre, and that the higher officials and military observed a benevolent neutrality. A turbulent sitting of tLe Duma refused to tolerate M. Stolypin's defence of the arbitrary actions of the officials. Ihey hissed M. Stolypin and Prince Urusoff. M. Pate, Under-Secretary of the Interior, in a remarkable speech, declared that while oocult influences remained in virtual control of the Government, no Ministry was able to restore order. The massuore would continue. M. Stolypin's attempt to reply aroused such angry demonstrations that the sitting was suspended. ANNIVERSARY OF REVOLUTIONARY DISTURBANCES. GENERAL STRIKE AT LODZ. I>e3eived June 22, 9.40 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, June 22. A general strike has commenced at Lodz On the anniversary of the outbreak of the revolutionary disturbances.