RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8189, 23 July 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

SIX NEWSPAPERS CONFISCATED. FIFTY MEMBERS.OK ONE STAFF ARRESTED. TROOPS ANI) POLICE STONED. Received July 22, 4.37 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, July 21. Six S 1 ". Petersburg journals, the Mysl, Eoho, Yolos, Troda, Devadgafrywek, and Yiestiansky Deputat, have been confiscated and their printing offices closed. Fifty members of the staff of the Mysl have been arreted. Angry crowds, singing the Marseillaise, stoned the troops and police. The troops by firing blank „cartridges. THE DUMA. STARTLING RUMOURS. ST. PETERSBURG, July 20. Wild rumours are current in St. Petersburg regarding the impending dissolution of the Duma. Troops are pouring into the oity. THE APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE. Received July 23, 12.12 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG July 22. The Dumb has modified the revolutionary tendencies of its appeal to the people, and now urges the latter to patiently await the elaboration of the Duma's agrarian law proposals. END OF A STRIKE. Received July 23, 12.20 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, July 22. j The Odessa Harbour strike has ended. i The employers, fearing a oprifcinu- I anoe of the strike would lead to 1 great bloodshed, hurriedly conceded to most of the demands. BUSINESS CHECKED. LONDONf, July 20. The weakness of Russian securities is depressing all sections of the Stock Exchange, and is seriously checking business. CZAR ABANDONS HIS IN. TENDED TOUR. Reoeived July 23, 12.20 a.m. BERLIN, July 22. The newspaper Zeitung states that the Czar has informed the Kaiser that internal political considerations compel him to abandon his intended tour. • - S' ■