RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8319, 27 December 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

VENGEANCE OP REVOLUTION-

ary party. r count ignatiepf's ASSASSINATION. ST. PETERSBURG, Deo. 24. The assassination of Count Alexis Ignatieff, took place while he was sitting with other members of the Goanoll of the Empire in a refreshment room. The deed! was committed by a yuatb who fired foar shots at his victim from a revolver. Count Ignatieff's colleagues pursued the assassin, who attempted to commit suicide, bnt was captured.

A Renter message states that Count Ignatieff'e assassin declares that he executed the by the extreme £aHHBaPrBe revolutionary party December, to kill the moot exalted Russian. The Daily Telegraph's St. Petersburg correspondent states that the Zemstvo a* Tver (principal towu of the government of the same name, 275 miles south east of St. Petersburg), hitherto the most Radical in Russia, , recently became Conservative, and eieated' reaction aries like Count Ignatieff. To this charge is attributed the revolutionaries' vengeance.

During tbe past week 57 executions hnva been ordered by field courts martial, and 43 political offfencea—classed as "outrages" were reported. • ,

The Liberal newspapers emphasise tbe failure of* sanguinary repression to j deter the Socialists campaign. -Several of the Czar's guards at Tsarsfeue Selo have been arrested.

Received Dsoember 26, 11.25 p.m. ST. PEIESKBUKG, Dec. 26. Count Ignatieff's assaaain is named Fidler. He is a Moscow student. He was implicated in an, insurrection for wbioh he did not appear a<; the trial, though he was boand over for 10,000 roubles to be >■ of. good behavioar. That sum has bow been estroated.

Reoeived December 26, 11.25 p.m LONDON, December 26.

The Moscow correspondent of tbe Standard says the Czar's hastily oonoooted deoiee abolishing the Mujiks community of ownership of land is adversely oommented on.