RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8172, 4 July 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

Eoceived July 2. 7-53 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, July 2. Many aristocrats at Odessa are fleeing to Paris and Geneva, dreading an immediate general revolution in Southern Russia. The Black Sea squadron has arrived to protect the town. THE DISAFFECTED REGIMENT. HIS MAJESTY PROFOUNDLY GRIEVED. Received July 23, 8.45 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, July 2. Princes Trnbetzkoi oud Oblenski and five other princes iu the Preobragensky Kegimenfc have forfeited their positions as the Czar's aides-de-camp. They will take positions as officers in au infantry regiment. Nothing that has happened in Russia hitherto has so profoundly grieved and impressed the Czar as the regiment's mutiny. Baron Staciceberg, a subaltern in .the Sapper Regiment, has been dismissed for declaring that nevwill not obey if ordered to disperse 'the Duma. The infantry regiment whioh was sent to act against mutinous Cossacks at Orenburg, has agreed with the latter not to use arms. THE DUMA. ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. A STORMY DEBATE. "THE MINISTRY MUST RESIGN." SITTING SUSPENDED. Received July 3, 9.13 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, July 3. There was a stormy debate in the Duma on the question of the abolition of capital punishment. The Government insisted that in view of the spread of anarchy and assassination it was impossible to abolish the death penalty. , After noisy interruptions and shout* of "Resign," all the members of the "Left" rose yelling, "We don't want to listen to executioners, brigands and assassins; the Ministry must resign." A number of deputies with clenched fists rushed towards the Tribune, compelling General Pavaloff, who was speaking, to leave the Chamber. The sitting' has been suspended. THE DUMA. WARNED. THEIR PRESENT: ATTITUDE WILL LEAD TO BLOODSHED. Recsived July 3, 10.45 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, July 3. Later on Uount lleyden and Prince Volkonsky, members of the "Right," warned the Duma if it persisted in its present attitude blood would flow. " Ultimately the Duma unanimously adopted a Bill abolishing capital punishment. The deputies displayed intense indignation against General Pavaloff, because be was responsible for many of the executions.