RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8323, 3 January 1907, Page 5

RUSSIA.

SOLDIERS SENTENCED FOR MUTINY AND MURDER. TIMELY DISCOVERY OF A PLOT. FATAL RIOTS. Received January 2, 9.36 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, January 1. Seven soldiers at Tiflis, in Caucasia, have been sentenced to from four to twelve years' penal servitude, and a hundred and forty-two have received minor sentences for mutiny and the murdering of the commandant, another officer, and the chaplain. A plot to murder the members of the Imperial Financial Council in St. Petersburg was accidentally discovered. The intended meeting of the Council was postponed. Thirty armed robbers seized a convent at Mamanoffka, in the government of Nijni Novgorod After wounding several persons the robbers compelled the nuns to surrender their money. The tocsin was rung at the convent and the peasants in the neighbourhood assembled. The latter attacked the robbers, killing nine and wounding five. The rest escaped.

A number of fatal riots and outrages occurred at Lodz, the chief industral centre in Poland. A COURT OFFICIAL DISMISSED Received January 2, 8.54 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, January 1. The Czar has dismissed Prince Paul Dologorouki, Court Chamberlain, member of the Party of Freedom of the People, and brother of the VicePresident of the first Duma.

THE RELATIONS WITH JAPAN

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 31

An official communique published at St. Petersburg denies that there has been a rupture in the negotiations between Russia and Japan respecting and fisheries convention.

The communique states that Russia is prepared to extend to Japan, on the condition of reciprocity, all privileges granted to other Powers. Japan has formulated new demands regarding the free navigation of the Sungari River, the creation of consulates in Russia and the Far East, greater passport facilities, and special tariff privileges on the Manchurian frontier.

Russia considers that Japan has claimed far greater fishing , rights than was intended under the peace treaty concluded at Portsmouth. Much turns on the exact meaning of the word "inlet."

The communique adds that negotiations are proceeding normally. Opinion at Moscow credits England with contributing towards the improvement of Russo-Japanese relations.

Received January 2, 9.45 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, January 2.

The Moscow newspaper Viedomosti declares that Russia, need not fear a war with Japan, which is much weaker now than at the time of the late war, especially financially.

The St. Petersburg Bourse Gazette asserts that Japan's demands are more far-reaching than the official communique admits.