RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8283, 10 November 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

TWO DISINTEGRATING FORCES. SI. PETERSBURG, Nor. 8. The Party of Peaceful Regeneration, which opposes all unconstitutional government, is appealing to electors to the Duma to oppose the remnant of the administrative regime and revolutionary anarchy, wbiob, the party declares, are two disintegrating foroes now impeding the work of reconstruction.

ANOTHER MAIL ROBBERY.

ELECTION MEETINGS FORBIDDEN. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 8. Twenty robbers captured a mail van at WeroLni Dnieprovsk, wounded the'driver and a policeman, and decamped with sixty-three thousand roubles. The Governor of Odessa refuses to permit any election meetings to be held in that oity. The official Eleotoral Commission theatens to resign, alleging that its work is useless without meetings. gNo revolutionary organisation now exists in Mosoow,sall the principal leaders having been arrested.

GRADUATED INCOME TAX. Received November 9, 8.6 a.m. , ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 8. Tbe Rnsslan Council of Ministers approves the introduction of a graduated income-tax, wbioh is calculated to produce from twenty-five to forty million roubles annually. Incomes under a thousand roubles axe exempt. Those at one thousand pay one per cent, for - each thousand ( upJs to thirty thousand roubles,, above thirty thousand four per cent, and one hundred thousand five per cent.

GERMAN STEAMER PIKED ON. "ANOTHER, DOGGER BANK, AFFAIR." Received! November 9, 9.40 p.m. . ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 9. The German steamer Wanminbs, laden with explosives, ordered Iby the Russian Government, was fired on and seized by -a Russian craiser, although the captain produced tbe Admiralty's letters of . authorisation. "',' The vessel ' was ' released after reference to St. Petersburg. The spot where the steamer was seized is not stated. ' The German press consider it another Dogger'; Bank affair, and insist on explanations.

WRECK , A TRAIN MANY PEOPLE KILLED. . ROBBERS DECAMP WITH A '\, MILLION ROUBLES. | Received November 9, 9.40 p.m. I ST..PETERSBURG, Nov. 9. i A band of Terrorists, by means of ' bombs, wrecked a train outside I Rozoff, killing and wounding many : people. . Tbe robbers decamped with a' million roubles. 1 ', THE DUMA ELECTIONS. , ; ■ „ . / "' I ELECTORS INDIFFERENT. . i ' i Received November 9, 9.40 p.m. J, I , ' ST. PETERSBURG, Nov/9. i Most of the electors are indifferent over tbe Duma elections, since the. Government are' determined to prevent free'elections. ■ ' Only tbe extreme Left and Right are displaying activity. ! ' ' '" " '' ' .