RUSSIAN CRISIS.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 1599, 3 February 1906, Page 4

RUSSIAN CRISIS.

LONDON, Jan. 30. A bomb thrown at Tiilis killed General Griaznofit, the Viceroy's chief of staff. The assassin was arrested. The Second Ural Cossack Keginient, stationed at Katerinodar, while professing fidelity to the Czar, declared it impossible to serve as instruments of repression after the manifesto of oc- , tober 30th, ajjd, therefore, they return home. Punitive columns in the Baltic provinces are executing insurgents wholesale. The Czar has ordered a committee to. enquire into the Management of the Black Sea fleet. M. llurnovo has forbidden the holding of a Mohammedan Congress in Moscow, though scores of delegates travelled thousands of miles in order to discuss political, social, and relig- ■ ious requirements. Gomel is in (lames, and Cossacks and hooligans are looting the town. Owing to the murder of two policemen at Kielse, the general body o* ' the force left. The iJovohjo" demands the delivery, with'.n three days, of arms and explosives held without license, otherwise those found in possession of these will be shot without trial, and in the case • of minors carrying arms their par- ' ents or guardians will be shot. A crowd stormed a police station in Jtiga, killed three, policemen, anc! released 17 political prisoners. Serious disorders continue in several provincial centres. Cossacks, maddened by drink, at tacked the .Jews in Gome, and also killed several polite. Many factories . have been dosed, throwing idle, thirty thousand people, because the younger workers refuse to work regularly. The soldiers at Mitau shot suspects without trial. French financiers are disposed to lend Russia eighty million pounds if the * Duma is really representative of the nation and exercises effective control. Tl ie authoritatively announced in St. Petersburg that it is intended to amend the organic laws based upon the manifesto of Oetober 30, with a view also to abolish the Czar's unlimited power to suspend amendments. It is also intended to vest legislative power conjointly in the Czar, the Duma, and the Council of the Empire. The Czar retains the title of autocrat. If dissolved, the Duma re-assembles within six months.