RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8252, 5 October 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

A MAIL BOAT ROBBED. Received October 4, 11.40 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 4. Twenty-five robbers, who booked as passengers, overpowered the crew of a Russian mail boat in the Black Sea and robbed the mails, securing twelre million roubles besides money and valuables belonging to passengers. TROOPS REFUSE TO SFOOT MUTINEERS. Received October 4, 11.32 p.m. LOIN DON, October 4. Reuter's St. Petersburg correspondent states that it is reported that the troops oompoaing the Kronstadt garrison intimated to the Government that they would not shoot nineteen sailors recently sentenced to death for mutiny. The Standard states that troops at St. Petersburg bare been ordered to Kronstadt to execute the mutineers. TERRORISTS SHOT. Received October 4, 11.4 p.m. »T. PETERSBURG, October 4. Sixteen terrorism have been courtmartialled and shot ac Siedloe within a fortnight. One hundred and sixty-four people have been killed and five hundred and ninety-six persons wounded in the streets of Warsaw during the past four mouths. AN APPEAL TO PEASANTS. Received October 4, 9.17 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, October 3. Now that the harvest is garnered, the revolutionaries are appealing to the peasants to rleccand with arms the whole of the Russian lands, with complete liberty.