RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8446, 21 May 1907, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE DUMA.

SCENE OF GREAT UPROAR.

MEMBERS SUSPENDED.

Received May 20, 8.48 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, May 19,

Amid a scene of great uproar in the Duma, three members of the Right were suspended for a period of fifteen sittings for calling the other sections "cut-throats."

(It is the party of reaction—the Right—that has incurred punishment in this instance. Apropos, B. W. Norregard writes in the London Daily Mail:— "My personal belief is that the life of the new Duma will "foe but a short one. In the first place,"there are at least two parties—the Extreme Right and the Extreme Left—which, for different reasons, are strongly opposed to the whole idea of the Duma. The reactionaries desire nothing but a strong autocratic Government in Czarism pure and simple. They are the truly Russian people, who cling to the old system which has guided and led the nation onwards for a thousand years, and which from humble beginnings has erected the largest united empire in the world. TheJ Social Revolutionaries consider the worlc of the Duma as apt only to botch and bungle the work for freedom, as they understand it. Both parties may create difficulties and evoke scents which will render a quiet and fruitful work impossible. "A much greater danger is formed by the whole Russian national character. The Russians are children of the moment, impulsive Jsentimentalist, easy to move, easy to sway. The men who understands how to speak to their heart has a much greater chance of being heard than the one who appeals to their intellect. It was chiefly by making themselves champions of the causes of'amnesty and abolition of capital punishment that the Cadets rendered themselves masters of the first Duma. "Two such burning questions are lying dangerously near the surface, and may at any moment produce a complete volcanic eruption. They are. firstly, the question of the insti tution of field courts-martial and other repressive measures of the Government; and, secondly, the conduct of the Governmert in relation to the famine relief of the suffering districts, its ineptitude in procuring the necessary relief grain in time, and the 'Lidval' and other scandals connected with the matter. In these questions the whole population of Russian takes the greatest interest, and it is difficult to believe that the leaders of the parties will have sufficient authority to restain their followers from taking these matters up. If they do not succeed, the sluice-gates of "passion v, ill be opened; all good reasons for the exercise of sober restraint will be forgotten; the second Duma will 'maintain the traditions of the first Duma,'as the Liberal papers phrase it, and the inevitable result will be a similar fate - a short shrift and sudden dissolution.") MAIL VAN ROBBED. INDISCRIMINATE SHOOTING IN A FACTORY. TWENTY ONE PERSONS KILLED. Received May 20, 8.48 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, May 19. Revolutionaries attacked and robbed a mail van at Lodz, Poland, and killed one Cossack. Later, a Cossack patrol entered Kutner's spinning mills, near IHhe scene of the robbery, and used their revolvers indiscriminately. They killed twenty-one persons, including seven clerks, and wounded forty-five others.