RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.

North Otago Times, 7 April 1905, Page 2

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.

(By Electric Telagraph.-Copyrlght.) (Per Press Association.) Received April 0, at 8.1)7 n.m, St. Petersburg, April ii. General Trepolf has made wholesale arrests amongst the intellectual classes of St. Petersburg on the pretext ol suppressing secret societiesReceived April ti, nt 10.20 p.m> St. Petersburg, April G. I'ohiidonosUell has resigned tlie pro, en Tutorship of the Holy .Synod. This Is attributed to the Synod pronouncing -in favor of certain reforms, also protesting against the Bureaucracy conirolling the church. Tlie Synod recommended the summoning of an assembly of bishops to elect a patriarch, and re-es-labiishing the powerful iiiiliienco abolished by Peter the Great.. Tlie Times' St. Petersburg correspondent reports that, n strange uniformed Cossack nfiicer attended the Czar's rccep- ' lion nt Tsarskoeselo l'alnee on Monday,. ' The discrepancies in his accoutrements aroused susp cion. and he w-ns arrested. Ile had in his possession two small ' bombs,