THE RUSSIAN TURMOIL

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1732, 10 May 1905, Page 30

THE RUSSIAN TURMOIL

TROUBLE INCREASING IN POLAND.

A CHARTER OF LIBERTIES.

ST. PETERSBURG, May 6. The ferment in Poland is increasing owing to the brutality of Cossacks and infantry in dispersing crowds and injuring inoffensive people. ST. PETERSBURG, May 5. The representatives of thirty-four Zemstvos, in defiance of the authorities, have secretly assembled at Moscow to formulate a charter of liberties. Extreme Conservatives Russia have founded a Secret Terrorist Coinmit-

tee to organise Hooligan attacks on the Intellectuals. A man who was arrested at Odessa had in his possession a bomb. A secret store containing arms has been discovered.

Wealthy Nonconformists at Moscow subscribed beforehand several hundred million roubles to the War Fund, in return for relief of civil disabilities. The Czar has dissolved the Peasants’ Commission and the Ministerial • Commission on the schools question. Both were under the presidency of M. de Wrtt.

Thirty thousand men, women, and ohildren from the Vistula Valley have migrated to Prussia and Posen during tone past three weeks.

ST. PETERSBURG, May 8

A man was arrested when entering the Church of St. Isaac at St. Petersburg with a bomb conceaLed under his coat.