RUSSIA.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 295, 19 June 1907, Page 2

RUSSIA.

(BY rJBOTBJG TSLBOOAFB— COPTBIGHI ] [per press association.] St. Petersburg. June 18. Russia is singularly indifferent over the dissolution of the Douma. M. Purishkevitch created a great uproar in the Douma on Saturday by declaring that Social Democrats ought to be sent to the scaffold. While the Russian torpedo boat was discharging a torpedo at Sevastopol one struck a cutter in the Commander-in-Chief was cruising. He narrowly escaped drowning. The officers of the torpedo boat have been arrested on a charge of attempted murder. London, June 18. The Daily News declares that the rumoured St. Petersburg plot-is fiction and the real cause of the dissolution of the Douma was a fear of offending Germany by making concessions on the language question to Poland, for without the Poles' support, which was withheld in view of bargaining, Government would be unable to pass the budget. Finally German influence at Court decided M. Stolypin not to yield reasonable reform. (Received June 19th, 9 a.m.) St. Petersburg, June 18. Many Social revolutionaries have fled from Russia to Sweden. Some whose arrest M. Stolypin had demanded attended the recent Social Democratic Conference at London.