RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8210, 14 August 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

NAVAL CONSTRUCTION. Received august 13, 8.50 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG. August 12. The Bourse Gazette of St. Petersburg reports that the programme of the Minister of Marine includes some twenty thousand-ton battleships with a speed of twenty-one knots. They are to be constructed in Russian yards. MANY PRISONS PULL. Received August 13, 8.33 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 12. The Russian prisons in many plaoes are full of prisoners. Trains to Siberia are paoked with convicts, tried and untried. THE SVEABORG MUTINY. SOLDIERS EXECUTED. Reoeived August 13, 10.16 p.m. ST., -PETERSBURG, August 13. Lieutenants Emelgaroff and Kocbenovsky and five soldiers have been oourtmartialled and executed for participating in the Sveaborg mutiny. > ANO'IHER MANIFESTO. Received August 13, 10.36 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 13. The "Octoberists'" manifesto has been issued at Moscow. The demands inolude the speedy convocation of a representative assembly; the Ministry to be responsible to Parliament; equality of all citizens before law'; compulsory expropriation of sufficient private lands to create permanent peasants' ftoldings. THE ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF GENERAL KAULBARS. Received August I*3, 10.36 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 13. General Printz's daughter was educated with General Kaulbars. She left a letter showing that the Terrorists commissioned her to murder General Kaulbars. (General Printz's daughter committed suicide at Odessa under sensational circumstances. While approaching General Kaulbars. Governor of Odessa, and General Karangozoff, apparently with the intention of killing them, the woman fell, nnd a bomb, whioh had been concealed in her reticule, exploded. She made an endeavour to escape, but, being pursued, entered a hotel and shot herself dead with a revolver).