THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13631, 28 June 1906, Page 7

THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

A FAMINE IN I'ROSPECT.

Prej« Association—B7 Telegraph—Copyright.

ST. PETERSBURG, June 26.

(Received June 27, at 9 a.m.)

M. Htolyjiin, Minister of tlie Interior, ostentatiously declined to notice tho remarks of the Duma speakers on the Left when criticising the Governments extravagance in army expenditure and oilicial pecul.itifin in tho distribution of famine relief, He sat <lo\vu amidst slinuti of " Resign."

(Received June 27, at 9.14 a.m.) Tlireo additional detectives were shot dead at Warsaw.

The artillerymen and engineers at Batoum have mutinied. The Cossacks have surrounded them. No fighting as yet has taken place, but many of the inhabitants have fled,

Eight million sterling was expended in relief in 24 provinces after the failure of the crops in 1905. A lesser famine is in prospect,

Seventy-eight mutineers escaped from prison at Sevastopol.

BERLIN, June 27, (Received June 27, at 10.52 p.m.)

Tho Tageblatt states that Austria and Germany are strengthening their eastern frontier garrisons, recent events in Russia rendering such a precaution desirable.