RUSSIAN INTERNAL AFFAIRS
BY ELECTRIC T ELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT, j [per press association.] HUGE LOAN NECESSARY.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 23,
Count do Witte’s organ, while declaring that tho financial outlook in. spires no misgivings, admits that it is indispensable to raise a loan of £70,000,000 sterling to prevent the disorganisation of the gold currency. The revolutionaries at, Vilna robbed a pawnbruking institiute of three mil-
ion roubles’ worth of-jewellery. The famine in Russia exceeds the trea and intensity of the famine of ,891.
The Polish agitators killed a police
man and wounded Iwo soldiers mortally ami another slightly before being shot by the police in the market place at Putulesk.
I( is expected that the Russians will evacuate Manchuria in Juno. Already 400,000 troops have returned. It is
ntended shortly to run six military rains daily.
The suppression of the revolt in the Baltic provinces is being continued with great severity. Wit him two days 54 were shot, Hasenpot (a schoolmaster) was ( hanged, and eight others executed at Grobin.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 February 1906, Page 3
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