RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 July 1905, Page 4

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.

UNFORTUNATE RUSSIA. ' A DISASTROUS DROUGHT. [BY EKCTKIC TELEGUAPII —COrYIUGHT.] [PEB EttESS ASSOCIATION.] ST. PETERSBURG, July 3. The Smietlivy, manned by officers, coaled at Thcodosia and started in pursuit of the Kniaz Potemkin. The latter was reiiorted to lie steaming to Novorossjsk, where Iho Black Sea squadron has arrived. The inhabitants are warned not In venture on the streets in the even! of the Kniaz Potemkin appearing. The cruiser Panakaocrkurga protects Theodosia. The Russians interned at Manila are sullen, and sympathise with Ihe Kniaz Potemkin. A rumour that their intentions were murderous, the American warship Monadock is watching in the proxim-1 ity. The Kniaz Potemkin lias reappeared at Kustenji. Drought threatens many laissian provinces. The worst reports come ffom M<>scow, Novgorod, Pekov, Unitebsk, Tu- " la, Karsk and Kherson. Replying to a deputation from the members of the nobility and Zomstvos at Moscow, from Orel, Novgorod, and other places, urging on a continuation of the war and the organisation on historic lines of an elective Legislative Assembly, the Czar remarked that the State would only be strong and solid if they religiously preserved the old traditions. Perhaps God was punishing the country for sinning in that respect, and experience would show how to remove the defects and errors occurring in the great work projected in the welfare of his subjects. LONDON, July S. General Linievitch sentenced several Russian officers to death for distributing seditious circulars in the Army.

SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMK2 THE MUTINEERS FIiY THE R MANIAN FLAG. (Received this day, at 3.25 n.n " LONDON, July It is rumoured in St. Peters and Vienna that the Reactionaries conspiring to dethrone the Czar, ing to his weakness and incaun They fear lie will assent to a Lil Constitution. BUKHAREST, July The Kniaz Potemkin's dcput; rowed ashore and treated with Roumanian General, Black Sea miral and Port Captain. The 1 manians declined to accept Ihe b:< ship as a gift, but the llmim? flat; is now hoisted on the Kniasi temkin and the torpudoer.