TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.
AWFUL BARBARITY.
By telegraph, Presa Aw’d, Copyright
St. Petersburg, April 4. The authorities at Yakutsk rent to the upper reaches of the river Kolyma a half naked and half starved Yukugr tribe on a shooting and fishing expedition, aod for trading purpoeo?, without adequate provision?. When faced with starvation, the wbo’o tribe huddled together on a plateau, and committed suicide.
Berlin, April 4. Prussia has expelled seven thousand Russian refugees, an average of fifty weekly.
DOUMA BOUND TO OPPOSE GOVERNMENT. PEASANTS’ FRANTIC DETERMINATION. Received 11.12 p.m., April 5. St. Petersburg, April 5. Loaders of the constitutional Democratic party, which was victorious in most Russian towns, declare that the Douma is bound to oppose the Government, and conflicts are inevitable. The only chance of avoiding revolution will be to form a coalition Ministry under MM. Shipoff and Petruukevitch, with an entirely liberal j programme. Peasants are frantically determined to uphold the Douma.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1717, 6 April 1906, Page 2
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