RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 827, 29 September 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

VIOLENCE JUSTIFIED. Received September 28, 8.30 a.m. ST. PEIERSBURG, Sept. 27. Replying to the municipality of Odessa, General Kaulbars justified the violence of members of the Union of Russian People, declaring that oitizena and, students deserved punishment for tolerating instead of surrendering revolutionaries. The members of tbe union, he added, were the Tsar's best sons, and were held in high esteem by the Government. A GENERAL SHOT. Received September 28, 8 .45 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept 27. General Apreleyeff was shot dead at his residence at Soohee, on the Black Sea. The murderers escaped. Revolutionists at Warsaw are offering country lads 7^ 2 'd for every policeman they assassinate. THE AGRARIAN PROGRAMME. Received September 28, 11.28 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 28. M. Stolypin's agrarian programme is strengthening the Government.and arresting general attention by its magnitude, and by tbe chance it offers for conciliating the peasants. Ibe programme has) removed tbe peasants' disabilities?, gives communes power to buy out any member wishing to start individual farming, and proposes to sell to peasants through tbe Land Bank fifteen mil lion acres of Stat* lands. The Bank suggests the sale of fifty-five million acres in tbe Altai Region to Siberian emigrants at a nominal price. M. STOLYPIN'S WARNING. Reoeived September 29, 1.23 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 28. M. Stolypin has warned the Governor and Prefects tnat a very strong Terrorist organisation has been formed to liberate all political prisoners. He admitH that the prisons are likely to be besieged.