TURMOIL IN RUSSIA.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1726, 29 March 1905, Page 30

TURMOIL IN RUSSIA.

BOMB-THROWING. CHIEF OF POLICE INJURED AT WARSAW. ST. PETERSBURG, March 24. Despite the efforts of leading reactionaries to belittle the Czar’s rescript of March 3rd recognising the elective principle, it is widely believed that the rescript represents the calm and deliberate judgment of the Government, as distinguished from the Court party. The newspaper “Novoe Vremya” implies that M. Buliguine’s Commission is likely to confer the elective franchise on owners of 300 acres or the equivalent in houses or other property m every parish in Russia. ST. PETERSBURG, March 24. The peasants in the Kutno. district declined to furnish horses for mobilisation purposes. The crowd, which was not familiar with Russian methods, disobeyed the order to move, but fled when the soldiers were aiming at them, wounding many of them in tlio back. Those who were injured were not allowed to be removed to their homes, but were conveyed in carts to Kutno, a six hours’ journey, without obtaining the assistance of doctors. ST. PETERSBURG, March 27. A Jew threw a bomb at the police station at Praga, a suburb of Warsaw, wounding six out of ten policemen. Hie assassin himself was injured, and was arrested, after twice wounding an officer who prevented his escape. When the outrage was reported to Baron Nolken, Chief of the Warsaw Police, he drove towards the Praga station.

castle a man threw a bomb into hia carriage, severely injuring him. The assailant escaped after killing a plain-clothes constable who tried to arrest him. Baron Nolken is hated for the sanguinary measures he adopted in suppressing the disturbances in January. The police at Warsaw discovered eighty bombs in a brick grave at the Savonski cemetery. ST. PETERSBURG. March 27. The Council of Ministers has rejected M. de Witte’s proposal to abolish the Committee of Ministers, realising that such a step would involve the appointment of M. de Witte as Premier. The reactionary party at St. Petersburg is denouncing M. Buliguine’s refusal to see a delegation from the Moscow zemstvos, and he has now promised that the zemstvos will be represented on the Commission. LONDON, March 26. The mobilisation of the Russian reserves lias been abandoned. The losses sustained by the troops at the front will he filled from the d-enot battalions. The revolutionary leaders at Zurich have warned the Grand Dukes to resign their official positions within a month on pain of death.