RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8280, 6 November 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

CRIME SUPPRESSION. TWELVE MONIES' RECORD. Raoeived November 5, 8.27 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 4. The newspapers published in the capital estimate tbaE during the first year of the Constitution the following punishments were iuflioted by the authorities:— Exeoutiona ... 1,513 Newspapers suspended ... 523 Editors prosecuted ... 647 Bomb outrages ... 242 Robberies from publio institutions ... 940 Two girls were shot at Kronstadt because a hangman was not procurable. Gresehuni, one of the founders of the organisation wiiioh killed MM. Sipiaguine, Bogolietoff, and M. Plehve, has esoaped from the oonviot prison in Siberia. The prisoner ooncealed himself in a water butt. SUMMARY COURTMARTIAL. OBJECT NOT ACHIEVED. Received November 5, 8.50 a.m. LONDON, November 4. The St. Petersburg correspondent of The Times snys the main object of summary oourtmartial proceedings— < the extirpation of terrorism—has not been achieved, though there were three huudred executions in two months, STUDENTS EXPELLED. Received November 5, 10.1 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 5. Despite the protests of the Reotor and the Council of the St, Petersburg University the Prefect of Polioe refused to permit students to attend University leoturee, and expelled them from the capital,

THE TREASURY VAN ROBBERY. FIFTEEN MORE ARRESTS MADE. Received November 5, 10.6 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 4. Fifteen more arrests have been made in connection with the robbery of the St. Petersburg Treasury van. Tbe leaders of the gang were connected with the recent outrage at 3d. Stolypin's house.