RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8230, 6 September 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ATTEMPT TO SHOOT A GOVER-NOR-GENERAL.

Received September 5, 8.10 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 4. Terrorists unsuccessfully attempted to shoot M. Stopin, the popular Governor - General of Nioolaieff.

APPEAL FOR SHOD AND SHELL.

Received September 5, 8.50 a.m. PARIS, September 4. Maxim Gorky aaa urgently appealed to French workmen to supply shot and shell to assist a general rising in Russia.

SYMPATHY WITH THE BOMBTHROWERS.

Received September 5, 8.58 a.m. 4. Mr KeiriHardie, the Labour member forlMertbyr Tydvil, speaking at Black barn, sympathised with the Russian bomb-throwers, and said—"l hope my comrades will make no half job of the business. The day of Kings, Tsars, and Emperors is past."

REVOLUTIONARY LEADERS SENTENuSD.

Received September 5, 10.56 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 5. A court-martial at Riga sentenced 24 revolutionary loaders to terms of imprisonment from 2 to 15 years. A TERRIBLE REVENGE. Keceived'September 5, 10.42 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 15. A polioeman was shot at Wenden, in Lavonia, and a punitive oolumn demanded the surrender of. the murderer. The people replied that they did not know him as he was a stranger. Forty-nine people were arrested, despite their protestations of innocence. The whole male population was summoned to the scene of the murder,'and the commander of the column selected two old men and ajjyouth and shot all three. He announced that in the event of another political. murder nine Letts would be shot, and in the event of a third twenty-seven.