THE RUSSIAN REVOLT

Evening Star, Volume 12869, Issue 12869, 19 July 1906, Page 6

THE RUSSIAN REVOLT

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. THE AGRARIAN CRISIS. THE CZAR ALARMED. ST. PETERSBURG, July 18. Tho Agrarian Committee, of the Duma have rejected the Government's agrarian programme.. They advise that an appeal be made to the peasantry to remain calm pending the carrying out of tlie Duma's own scheme. The Committee strongly favor the expropriation of tho hindowncrs.

An animated debate is proceeding, the leformers insisting that it is folly to defer malting an appeal until the towns and villages are in flames and the wlwle country engulfed in anarchy. It is reported in* St. Petersburg that tho co-oporation between tho Council of the Empire and the. Duma has thoroughly alarmed the Czar, excluding all hope of a. constitutional Democratic Cabinet. [The Council of the Empire and the Duma arc in harmony as to tho measures to bo adopted for the relief of the peasantry, and m their rejection of the proposes of the Ministry. But the reference was not that tho Czar would decide to stand by the Bureaucracy, rather that he would take a step in advance and summon tho President of the Duma to form a responsible Ministry from, the ranks of the Constitutional Democrats. As the message reads, it is a challenge to :he forces that mak» for revolution.] GENERAL KOZLOFFS MURDIDR. ST. PETERSBURG, July 18. (Received July 19, at 8.2 a,m.) Kozloff'* assassin is & Lett, belonging to an organisation that has sworn to kill General TrepoiT. Prince Putiaian, and thirteen ether courtiers. ATTEMPT ON GRAND DUKE VLADIMIR. BERLIN, Jury 18. I,Received July 19, at 8-2 a.m.) men tried to derail the CoblenzTreves express, believing Hie Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia to be a passenger. The Duke, having received police- warning, travelkxl by another route. RIFLES FOR FINLAND. STOCKHOIAL July 18. (Received July 19, at 8.28 a.m.) The Swedish authorities captured 20.000 rifles that were destined for Finland. They were hidden hi casks and covered with fruit. JUVENILE BOMB-THROWKRS. ST. PETERSBURG, July 18. The Chief of Police at Tiflis was seriously injured by a bomb thrown from the Georgian Nobles' School Tlie soldiers fined iv volley into the school, killing one of the perpetrators. THE SEBASTOPOL MUTINY. ST. PETERSBURG, July 18. (Received July 19, at 8.42 a.m.)

The trial of ninety-six participants in the naval mutiny of last year has commenced at Sebastopol. The Admiralty employed commercial clerks, who struck to show their •sympathy with the accused.