RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8233, 10 September 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

DRASTIC COURT-MARTIAL. THE COMMUNIQUE FAVOURABLY RECEIVED. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept..7. A drastic court-martial will deal with crimes oommitted in publio places. The communique has created a favourable impression in Russia. The Dowager Empress favoured the grafting of immediate Liberal reforms. The Czar, however, obose the middle course. The Grand Dune Ninholas Nioolaievitcb advocated General Count Ignatieff being appointed Dictator. (The official communique, published on Wednesday—announcing certain reforms as well as exceptional measures for dealing with persona guilty of political crimes—was surprisingly frank. It gave a summary of recent outbreaks, outrages, and incitations to the army to rise, and deolared that the revolutionaries were striving by violence to impede the creative aotivity of the State and overwhelm the oountry with disaster. This, says tbe communique, must have been supported by the extremists in the late Duma, who endeavoured to usurp the power of the Executive. Tbe revolutionaries are now seeking to frighten the Government by the masaaore of officials. The Government's aims, however, are unalterble. This or that person may be killed, but it impossible to kill the ideal inspiring the Government. Hence the efforts of the revolutionaries jvSll be met by force.) •

ADVERSELY CRITICISED.

Received September 9, 4.30 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 8. M. Stolypin's programme is now being adversely criticised in St. Petersburg. When first issued it was favourably commented upou, hut on being analysudtJt Jisolose-i the old system of promises and threats revived, the only difference being that both are enlarged. The Sooial Revolutionaries have resolved to continue the terrorism, aiming at the assassination of the prlnoipal ministers whose names are attaoned to the Ministerial programme.

THE REVOLUTIONISTS

GOVERNED BY FOUR MEN

Reoeived September 9, 4.30 p.m. LONDON, September 8. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Express states that the revolutionists are governed by four men, who never meet. One of them, who is the head of the central body, is alone aware of the identity of his three colleagues.