RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8197, 30 July 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

A GENERAL STRIKE PROPOBED.

ORGANISING THE WORKING MASSES. Received July 29, 4.50 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, July 28. The Socialists in Russia are orgai ising the working masses for a get eral strike, though a joint oonfei enoe of the revolutionary committe and the socialists, held on the bordt of Finland, resolved not to deolai a strike at present.

THE DUMA'S MANIFESTO

BEING LARGELY CIRCULATED,

Received July 29, 4.45 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, July 29. The manifesto, which was issued by the members of the Duma at Viborg, ii being circulated by an immense number of printers, who are eluding the vigilance of the police.

THE DISSOLUTION OF THiS DUMA. THANKSGIVING SERVICES , HELD.

Received July 29, 4.50 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, July 28. The Bishops of Nishninovgorod, Kieff, and other cities held thanksgiving eerviaea to celebrate the dissolution of the Duma.

THE PRESENT SITUATION.

COUNT WITTK'S OPINIONS.

Received July 29, 4.55 p.m. LONDON, July 28. The Daily Telegraph publishes an interview with Count Witte, exRussiau Premier. He declared that a mistake had been made in not introducing reforms long ago. The peasants firstly need the right of personal property; seoondly, it was the bounden duty of the State to supply the peasants with more land, The Duma was in the wrong, and the Government had been compelled to choose between a revolution organised under the cove" of legality and the dissolution of the Duma. The Czar will, in a few months, convoke a new Duma. Count Witte further stated that the majority of the foreign statesmen bad adopted the oorrect attitude toward Russia in her present trials.

PLANS FOR AN INSURRECTION FOUND.

Received July 30, 1.5 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, July 29. The newspaper Novoe Vremya states that oomplete plans for an insurrection, enumerating the participating organisations, have been found in the office of the newspaper Mysls, whioh was recently confiscated.

EXTRAORDINARY TRANQUILITY.

EMANCIPATORY MOVEMENTS PREDICTED.

LONDON, July 27

The St. Petersburgh correspondent of The Times states that the extraordinary tranquility prevailing in the Russian capital is more portentous inaii ou .°dreds of revolutionary processions. The correspondent predicts that ere many weeks are passed emancipatory movements will begin.

REVOLUTIONARIES ROB A TRAIN.

FIFTEEN THOUSAND ROUBLES STOLEN.

A GUARD KILLED.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 27. Revolutionaries stopped a train on the Vistula railway, near Warsaw, killed the guard, and stole fifteen thousand roubles.

TWO GENERALS KILLED,

SIX OTHER OFFICIALS SHOT.

SEVERAL PASSENGERS WOUNDED.

Received July 30, 12.34 a.m

n LONDON, July 28

Ten Polish revolutionaries "held up" the train whioh had r a saloon carriage attached, conveying General Zukato, Chief of the frontier guards, General Westerning, Chief cf the Warsaw Customs, and six other officials. The guards and the occupants of the saloon were shot dead, including Generals Zukato and Westerning. The revolutionaries escaped with fifteen thousand roubles, after having wounded several other passengers.

CABLE NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Associilion—Copyright.