RUSSIA AND THE CZAR

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8223, 7 April 1890, Page 5

RUSSIA AND THE CZAR

ARRESTS AND TRIALS. DISCOVERY OF BOMBS. THE PRISONS CROWDED. Prrll Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. St. Petersburg, April 4. It is asserted that the rumours that the Czar was injured by an assassin are false, and his alleged illness is officially denied. It is believed that the mass of the Russian nat ion are staunchly loyal. The students' aa;itat>on has been renewed at St. Petersburg. At Moscow, fifteen students are being tried Tor political rebellion. At Charkoff, further arrests, followed by expulsion, have taken place. The Czar has abandoned the proposed hunting expedition in Poland, because he was warned that the train would be derailed. The Academics are supporting the demand of the Universities that the new obnoxious statutes should be repealed, freedom of meeting in clubs allowed, and a University Court established, from which the police should be excluded.

The leaders of the movement in St. Petersburg are being exiled to Siberia. The Press has been forbidden to mention that they demanded the release of their comrades. The Czar is alarmed at the disaffection amongst the officers of the army. St. Petersburg, April f>. The Czar has abandoned his annual visit to Gatschina, owing to the discovery of bombs in the vicinity of the palace. It is suspected that the Czar's illness is assumed in order to avoid appearance, in public. The St. Petersburg prisons are crowded with students arrested in connection with the recent disturbance. Many of those arrested have been deported to a distance, and some of the leaders have been forced into the army in Central Asia. The students disclaim that theirs is a political agitation, but that they have taken up the cudgels against scholastic hardiness. The directors of the rioters include sons of some of the highest families in Russia. The Czar threatens to close the higher scholastic institutions for a year. Several of the professors who were censured have resigned, in sympathy with the students. The excitement is now decreasing. The Czar is slightly indisposed, having suffered a relapse from an attack of influenza. The students at St. Petersburg assembled, and sang the national anthem to indicate their loyalty.