RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8172, 30 June 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

GRAVE REPORTS. ATTEMPT TO FOMENT MASSACRES. A THOUSAND ARRESTS MADE. Reoeived June 29, 8.31 a.m. LONDON, Juno 29. Grave reports have been reoeived from Vienna regarding affairs in Russia. It is stated that the military, acting in tbe reactionary interest, is fomenting tbe early massacre of Jens and Christian Intellectuals at Sevastopol. Aeoording to tbe report, a thousand soldiers and sailors were arrested in Sevastopol in one night on suspicion of having revolutionary sympathies. Black Hundred literature, inciting the soldiers to massacre and plunder, is being freely oiroulated. A BATTALION'S DEMANDS. Reoeived June 29, 8.31 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, June 28. The first battalion of the Preobagensky Regiment at Peterhof passed resolutions demanding land for peasants, amnesty to politioal assassins, and the release of members of the regiment from polioe duties. Subsequently the Czar severely reprimanded the commander for want of disaipline in the regiment. REVOLUTIONARIES DISCOVERED AMONG PALACE SERVANTS. TELEGRAPH WIRES INTERRUPTED, GREAT ALARM AT WARSAW. SIX OFFICERS AND 290 MEN TO BE COURTMARTIALLdJD. Received June 30, 12.55 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, June 29. Revolutionaries have been discovered among tbe Palace servants at Peterhof. The Court returns to tbe Tsarakoe Selo Palace. The. telegraph wires between Warsaw, St. Petersburg and Mosoow are interrupted. Great alarm is consequently felt at Warsaw. Six officers add 290 men belonging to the Proebrajunsky Regiment are to be courtmartialled. THE BIELOSTOK MASSACRE. Reoeived June 30, 1.30 a.m. NEW YORK, June 29. Presideut Roosevelt has approved of the joint resolution of the Houses of Congress expressing horror at tbe Bielostok masssasre.