RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8177, 9 July 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE DUMA. ST. PETERSBURG, July 6. Members of the Duma are furious because the police violently assaulted a deputy in tbe street, though he declared himself to be a member of the Duma. Socialists declare thai if the inoideut is repeated Ministers will be prevented from speaking iu the Duma. A report has been submitted to the Duma, describing the reoent horrible massacres at Bielostok, and accusing the Government of corrupting the army and transforming the soldiers into ferocious beasts. The debate on the report has been adjourned. The (Jzar has censured the Grand Duke Nicholas in connection with the insubordination of the Proebragensky Regiment. The trial of 27 members of the Mingrelian Regiment for participating in the distucbancea has led to a general strike at Tifiis. The authori ties have posted quickfhers and guns in the chief thoroughfares. AN EXPRESSION OF GOODWILL. LONDON, July 6. Nearly three hundred members of the British Parliament have signed a brief but cordial cablegram of goodwill to the Russian Duma. BRITISH NAVAL. VISIT. LONDON, July 6. I la the House of Commons yesterday, Sir Edward Grey, in reply to Mr Keir-Hardie, said the coming British naval visit to the Baltic had no reference to Russia's internal affairs. ' Ho spoke hopefully of the increasing good relations between Britain and Russia, adding that they must avoid comment while Russia continued in her present troubled condition.