THE EXODUS FROM RUSSIA.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 2374, 2 June 1906, Page 8

THE EXODUS FROM RUSSIA.

Ti e exodus of British families from M.e ,a- continues unabated, and the colony lose- some of it- members almost every week (says a London Daily Express " correspondent). Many of the families have long been resident in Moscow, and they are leaving for good owing to the un-settb-d political conditions. Extraordit ary precautions are taken to prevent attempts on the life of General Dbax-off. who has !>een “ condemned ” by the revolutionaries because of the atrocities perpetrated under Ii- order- la-t December. Last week two student-. dnf--erl a- girls, parad'd 1 of his official residence in the hope of obtaining a e • to kill bim. As one was very tall and the other short, the ineonU pair attracted notice, which xoo deepened into suspicion. and they -.u re arrested. Tr i- alleged that tw> bomb- were found on them, and t ; " pair were banged tbe following nig t in the secret chamber- of tbe : il police department. British p p’ driving to the Anglican ( Orel on a recent Sunday comp’.'iterl of having rifles levelled at tb> ■■ f*r no other rea-on than that tier cabmen did not carefully “ h the opposite kerbstone while pa- i - the official residence, which me treet a Ihe Anglican Church.