RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8258, 11 October 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ROBIN HOOD GANGS AT WORK. Received Ootober 10, 8.39 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, October 9. Robin Hood pangs, called "The Brethren of the Forest," are overrunning the Bal'iio provinces, giving receipts for everything confiscated. A bomo wounded General Dumbadse, commander of the troops at Sevastopol. The perpetrators of the outrage were chased, but tbey fought their way through the police. CONCESSIONS TO THE PEOPLE. Keoeived October 10, 8.30 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Ootober 9. The Premier, M. Stolypin, has prepared law conferring unrestricted freedom on dissenting churches; also the right of registering marriages, births and deaths.

UNION OF RUSSIAN PEOPLE. INCITING FOLLOWERS TO EXTERMINATE JEWS AND REBELS. JEWS AT ODESSA PANIOSTRIOKEN. THE PREFECT PREVENTS DISTURBANCES. Reoeived October 10, 9.34 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, October 10. The J°ws at Odessa are panicstricken owing to M. Dubrovin, President of the Union of Russian People, inciting three hundred of his followers to exterminate all the rebels and Jews. M. Dubrovin declared that Russians wanted neither Constitutions nor Parliament, but only orthodoxy and autocracy. The Prefeot prevented any dieturbanoe^. THE BRITISH DEPUTATION. PERMISSION FOR PUBLIC RECEPTION REFUSED. Reoeived October 10, 9.34 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, October 10. Tha Prefeot of Moscow has refused to permit a pt/blio reoeption of the British deputation which is conveying a memorial to the late Duma. THREATENING LETTERS. BRITISH INTERFERENCE WILL NOT Bti TOLERATED. Received Ootober 10, 10.55 p.m. :'ST. PETERSBURG, October 10. British residents in St. Petersburg and the Embsssy have received threatening letters declaring, in connection with the memorial to the Duma, that British interference will not b<* tolerated. A SIX DAYS' RECORD. OVER ONE HUNDRED EXECUTIONS. Received Ootober 10, 9.45 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Ootober 10. There have been over 100 executions in Russia, chiefly in Poland, during the last six days.