RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 133, 8 June 1906, Page 3

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

STRIKE OF SEAMEN. PEASANTS PREPARING TO SEIZE LAND. THE KNIAZ. POTEMKIN MUTINY. [press association . ] (Received June 8, 9.25 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, June 7. Russian seamen are on strike at Odessa. They threaten, in the event of seamen and firemen being imported from the Baltic, to blow up foreign shipping and create international complications. Infantry with quickfirers' guard the harbour. Fearing that the Duma will be unable to secure a settlement of the agrarian question, peasants are preparing to seize land, especially at Voroiegh, Saratoff, and Grodno. The Government offers to landless peasants in the central and southern provinces three and a half million acres on, the right bank of the Volga in the Samara district.

One hundred and sixty-three seamen who were implicated in the mutiny on the battleship Kniaz Potemkin and remained in Roumania, have since landed and have petitioned the Duma to obtain amnesty for them. Russia offered the Roumanians 20,000 roubles if they would kidnap Matuschenko, the ringleader of the mutiny, and deliver him to Russia by sea. A friend enabled him to quit Roumania.