RUSSIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12955, 26 August 1905, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE COURLAND DISORDERS.

GREAT FOREST FIRES. FLIGHT OF THE LANDOWNERS. ' By Telegraph—Press Association.— (Beeeired August 25, 9.48 p.m.) St. Petersburg, August 25. The Courland rioters have wrecked the Government buildings and burned the lists of conscripts in 20 communes. These lists were about to be used for mobilising purposes. The rebels also have started forest fires, in which the loss is estimated at millions of roubles. Many farmsteads also have been burned. Most of the landowners of Courland have taken refuge in Germany and Sweden.

THE STRIKES. SOLDIERS AS ENGINEDRIVERS. • St. Petersburg, August 24. Owing- to the strikes soldiers are acting as engine-drivers on the Vistula railway, in Poland. THE NATIONAL DUMA. RESOLUTION BY ST. PETERSBURG MUNICIPALITY. POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS SUPPRESSED. St. Petersburg, August 21. The St. Petersburg municipality, like the municipality of Moscow, has adopted a resolution urging the Tsar to amend the constitution of the National Duma in a Liberal direction. The authorities have not allowed the Russian newspapers to publish the resolution passed by the municipality of Moscow. Advices from Moscow say that 21 army officers, who had met to discuss the scheme for the National Assembly, have been arrested. (Received August 2C, 1.8 a.m.) St. Petersburg, August 25. A report has been submitted to the Vladimir Provincial Zenislvos Commission, amid cheers, to the effect that the Duma scheme does not fulfil the Zemstvos' desire. A resolution was carried similar to that passed by the municipality

AFFAIRS AT WARSAW. EMPLOYERS MURDERED IN STREETS. HUNDREDS MADE PRISONERS NIGHTLY. St. Petersburg, August 24. Four employers of labour at Warsaw have been found in the streets murdered in one night The present chief of police of Warsaw, Colonel Meyer, does not, as did his predecessor, shoot the revolutionists, but arrests them. Hundreds are arrested every night. All the prisons and several of the barracks are filled with prisoners, who are suffering great hardships from overcrowding, hunger, and brutal treatment.