TURMOIL IN RUSSIA.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1748, 6 September 1905, Page 31

TURMOIL IN RUSSIA.

MUTINOUS SOLDIERS. ST. PETERSBURG, September 4. Twelve hundred soldiers and officers belonging to three regiments stationed near Warsaw attempted to desert in a body. Other regiments fired on the mutineers, killing and capturing a number. SEVERE REGULATIONS. ST. PETERSBURG, September 3. M. Bekniann, the new Governor of the Oourland district, where the peasantry recently resorted to serious rioting against the land-owning class, bas issued fifteen drastic ordinances, dealing with every description of offence. The ordinances prohibit the wearing or selling of weapons as illegal ; hunting for sport is prohibited; and the police are empowered to shoot bicyclists who do not stop the instant they are signalled.

THE CAUCASIAN RISING. LONDON, September 4. Russia is preparing to land 100,000 troops at Batoum and Poti to suppress the disturbances in Caucasia, and perhaps to reinforce the army in Turkestan. PRIVATE ZEMSTVOS’ CONGRESS, DISPERSED bT~THE POLICE. ST. PETERSBURG, September 4. The police at Moscow dispersed a private congress of delegates from the Zemstvos, who were discussing the Duma scheme. The delegates included Prince Dolgourski and Prince Trubetskoi.