THE RUSSIAN CRISIS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13263, 23 August 1906, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN CRISIS.

AN OFFICER MURDERED.

ATTEMPT TO BURN THE BODY

By Telegraph Press Association Copyright.

(Received August 22. 10.11 p.m.')

St. Petersburg, August 22. The commander of. the Borissov Regiment, at Samara, has been killed in his residence. Methylated spirits were poured over the body and lichtcd. The murderers arc aot known. REMARKABLE BANKING TRANSACTION.

GERMAN BID FOR STATE

BANK.

(Received August 25. 12.42 a.m.)

Paris, August 22.

The Viborg correspondent of the Temps telegraphs the startling assertion that Mendelssohn and Co., bankers, of Berlin, with the promised eventual participation of French and other bankers, are actively negotiating to pay Russia £60,000,000 in gold for the Russian State Bank charter.

The intention is to convert the bank into a limited liability company, with Count Witte at its head. It is assumed that the bank's privileges include the monopoly of note

issue.

RESIGNATION OF OFFICERS.

PROTEST AGAINST LENIENCY

TO MUTINEERS.

.St. Petersburg, August 21.

Thirty-seven naval officers at Cronstadt have resigned their commissions as a protest against the lenient sentences passed on the mutineers.

Of the mutineers at Cronstadt 28 were sentenced to death and 162 to penal servitude. Seven of the 28 men have been executed.