RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8467, 18 June 1907, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE DUMA. TROOPS READY. Received June 17, 8.39 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, June 16. The committee of the Duma found that it would be unable to conclude its work before Monday. It requested the examining magistrate e to supply particulars of every accusation against the deputies. Subsequently an Imperial ukase was issued dissolving the Duma. The next elections Dave been fixed for September. Two hundred infantry and two trains filled with Cossacks are standing ready at every railway station in St. Petersburg. The deputy Ohsol, at whose residence the revolutionary organisation met, fled from St. Petersburg, He was afterwards captured. DISSOLUTION QUIETLY RECEIVED. ST. PETERSBURG FULL OF TROOPS. NINE DEPUTIES ARRESTED. Received June 17, 10.25 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, June 17. The dissolution of the Duma was quietly received in St. Petersburg. The city is full of troops. Newspaper criticism is prohibited. Nine of the accused deputies have been arrested. Many arrests have also been made at Warsaw. The Council of the Empire has been, prorogued until November. A COLONEL ASSASSINATED. ' Received June 17, 8.33 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, June 16. Colonel Kotiaroff, Deputy Commandant of the port of St. Petersburg, has been*assassinated. A PLOT FRUSTRATED. SIXTY ARRESTS MADE. Received June 17, 11.29 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, June 17. . The sailors on two Russian warships at Tendra Island plotted to throw the officers overboard and seize the whole of the squadron under Admiral Tsiwinksy. The officers frustrated the plot. Sixty arrests were made. It is 1 understood that street fighting at Sevastopol, following the Tendra Island mutiny, hastened the dissolution of the Duma. Cojonel Guessekowsky, DeputyCommandant of Sevastopol harbour, has been assassinated.