THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIII, Issue 13714, 3 April 1905, Page 7

THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA

PEASANT DISTURBANCES. MURDERS IN THE CAUCASUS. DISTRESS OF SOLDIERS' I . FAMILIES. CHARGES AGAINST ALEXEIEFF United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ST PETERSBURG, March 31. General Trepoff has arrested ten Terrorists, including several members of the inner circle. THE CZAR AND THE FINNS. LONDON", March 31. The Czar has suspended the enforcement of conscription 'in Finland for three years. According to French advices this concession is in exchange for the i'inlanders' offer of half a million sterling at the present crisis. A BOMB FOUND. ESTATE LOOTED BY PEASANTS. ST PETERSBURG, March 31. A bomb was discovered in a room of the Palais Royal Hotel, St Petersburg. Peasants looted Princess Yusupoff's estate, at Veronezh. DISTRESS OF SOLDIERS' FAMILIES. ALLOWANCES RETAINED FOR TAXES. A DENUNCIATION OF ALEXEIEFF. LONDON, March 31. The distress at Kharkoff is being aggravated by the authorities retaining allowances to soldiers families to pay arrears of taxes. f Outrages and murders of officials in the Caucasus are growing daily. Prince Mestckorski protests that .Prince Alexeieff is still drawing a salary of £30,000 for his vice-royalty, and residing with a vast suite at the Hotel De L'Europe, St Petersburg, while soldiers' families are reduced to 4 begging, and the eastern half of Siberia is threatened with famine, which has already begun at Irkutsk.