RUSSIA'S TROUBLES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13656, 27 July 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA'S TROUBLES.

ATTITUDE OF THE WORKERS. A RISK IN'SECURITIES. THE JEWS IN ODESSA. Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright ST. PETERSBURG. July 26. (Received July 26, at 9.19 p.m.) the workers in Russia appear to be adverse to an immediate general strike. The Onvernmeitf is circulating a stalemeat alleging that the Duma from the first and throughout its existence tried to overstep all limits of the law, usurping the functions of the (iovernment. There has been a marked and rapid rise at St. Petersburg and .Moscow of all Russian securities, Odessa is quieter, though 10,000 Jews are enramptd in the courtyards at the Jewish Hospital; being afraid to return to their homes, SYMPATHY WITH THE DUMA. LO.NDON, July 26, (Received July 26, at 9.57 p.m.) A iSritish address, expressing sympalhy and* friendship' wiih the Russian people and the Duma, is being largely signed, chiefly by inllneniial Liberals and alibis of Radical ncwsnapcis. The signatures include those of (.'corse Meredith, William Watson, Lord Brasscy, and Lord Welljy. THE CENSOR IN TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, ,lnly ?,5. (Received July 26, at 8.55 a.m.) The Turkish Censor has prohibited all reference in the newspapers to the dissolution of the Duma. SOME RUSSIAN HORRORS. Writing in |ho June number of the Anglo-Russian, At. Alexandre Estruf, who v.as ;ui attache to the suite of President Eauro during the late President's official visit lo Si. Petersburg', describes some of Ihi! horrors which appalled him during a recent visit i () Riga. •■ 1 saw," he wrole, ".i hoy of 13 and a girl of the same age bein«' escorted to Ihe place of execution by an imposing number of dragoons. Accustomed as 1 was io sights of blood. I gave way at the sighl; my wife, my mother, and 1 all wept like littfo children at !he &M of the wretched mother of the child they were about: (o execute; she seemed quil_c mad wilh grief, and her groans lent one's heart; the whole crowd following tile procession was seized with horror and" piiy at the spectacle of children led to execution for political crime. One recoils from I such arbiti.U'v bi.ndsh-.'d. and one felt that there was somclhing saianic and extraordinarily barbarous in this execution of children. Hcai'lied later on that the boy died like a hero. To console his motlicr lie said to her that up above ho would rejoin his irndsrlv-loved faiher. When Ihc soldiers had bound his eyes, he tore off (he bandages, saying that the brave can look death in the face! Jr'was net the same with the lifilo girl, who is said to have struggled and suffered horriblv until the executioners had finished their work." RUSSIAN VEOVKSSrm ON THE REVOLUTION. A Russian profe.».r.r, fI M, Paul Vinoaradoftmis Etvcn, in the I',"] nightly Review, an "'side glimpsa of the political affairs of his country. He says that such is tile present condition of things I hat, amongst probably the most superstitious people in Europe, the very priests have lost all social influence, "have sunk to the level of performers of magical ceremonies," and their action "does not affect anybody's conviction or cnaracior." The moral prestise of the CV, eminent has been "hopelessly damaged by the ridiculous exhibition of the last war" : the army and navy are honeycombed wiili disaffection, and ihc-' very Cossacks are evincing a- mutinous spirit; two crark rctrimenls of the guards have been removed from the capital in disirrace. on account of their disloyally; fit" Conservative elates, which include the landowners, manufacturers, and Merchant*, find their dependents vo;ing solidly against them at the polls, and are _ paralysed in consee.uenec. and nowhere is the antagonism between capital and labour so intense as in Russia, while the earth hunger of the peasnnlrv is impelling them to pillage and burn down the mansions of the nobles and gentry. In fact, Hie same cry is being raised which was heard at the great- French Revolution, " War to the chateaux, peace to the cottager"; and there appears to be a- great disintegrating force at work, for Proftsscr 'Vinogradotf says that, not only is a separate political existence being demanded, by all tie subject nationalities of the empire, but "the Poles, the Lithuanians, the Letts and Kstlis, the Georgians, Armenians, Ukraine Russians, and Siberians are all assei'ting their nationality and expecting autonomous institutions." What will lie the outcome of it all? Obviously, Russia cannot give way before ihese aspirations without ceasing to be Russia, and the writer of the article fears that the present course of events is the presage of "a downfall of the immense social fabric raised by the efforts of so many generations."