RUSSIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13325, 3 November 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

] THE TSAR. RETURNS TO IMPERIAL PALACE. By Telegraph.— Association.— Copyright. (Received November 2, 10.34 p.m.) St. Petersburg, November 2. The Tsar and his family have left the palace at Peterhof, and returned to the palace at Tsarskoye Solo. The Imperial palace at Tsarskoye Selo is 15 miles from St. Petersburg, 'and approached by road and rail, that at Peterhof is on the coast, and isolated. LABOUR LEADERS TRIED. SENT TO SIBERIA. (Received November 2. 9.20 p.m.) St. Petersburg, November 2. M. Krastoleff, president of the Russian Workmen's Council, and II of his colleagues have been sentenced to exile to Siberia and to loss of their civil rights for seditious conduct.

In a speech delivered (lining the dial, M. Krastoletf said the Government was really trying 200,000 workmen who had striven for political and economic reforms by pacific means. The Government ought to oe placed on its trial for causing the revolution, since the workmen had been forced into action.

ARMENIANS NEW CAMPAIGN MIDNIGHT RAID AND MURDER. HANGING VILLAGERS ON TREES. London, November 1. The Armenians resident in the Caucasus, in place of continuing a futile armed rising, are now kidnapping their opponents at night. Gathering in the woods before midnight, masked and armed, they have surrounded a Tartar village,-seized the villagers, condemned them, and hanged them on trees. THE CONSCRIPTS. RESPONDING FREELY TO THE CALL. By Telegraph.--Press Association.— Copyright. St. Petersburg, November 1. The Russian conscripts are responding with surprising regularity to the call to military service. This fact, together with the mitigation of the disorders, has occasioned a better feeling on the Bourses.