RUSSIA.
A REVOLUTIONARY PLOT. ST. PETERSBURG, March 30. The police arrested ten members of the Revolutionary Fighting Committee at Reval, a naval station on the Baltic, 232 miles south-west of the capital. A quantity of arms and ammunition, and a store of strychnine were seized, together with a quantity of hollow bullet 3 which were ready to be filled with poison. A plan was unearthed by the police providing for the distribution of booty by the revolutionaries on following basis:—The committee to retain three-tenths of all booty seized, up to one thousand roubles, six-tenths up to ten thousand roubles, and two-thirds in the event of higher amounts being secured; the remainder to be divided among the members of the organisations. Received April 1, 9.55 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, April 1. A quarter of a million Jews left Russia during 1906 in order to avoid pogroms and persecution. The St. Petersburg newspaper Grashdanin declares that the deter*mination of the Government to maintain the field court-martials for another month indicates their intention to dissolve the Duma.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8390, 2 April 1907, Page 5
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