RUSSIA'S INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Southland Times, Issue 19919, 8 September 1906, Page 2

RUSSIA'S INTERNAL AFFAIRS

ANOTHER OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE, Per United Press Association. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. ST, PETERSBURG, Sept. V. Received 7th, 9.2 p.xu. An official communique gives a surprisingly frank summary of outbreaks, outrages and incitations of the army and declares that tho revolutionaries are striving, by violence, to impede the activity of the State and overwhelm the country -in disaster. They must have been supported by extremists in the Duma, who endeavoured to usurp tho executive power. 'The revolutionaries are now seeking to frighten tho Government hy tho massacre of officials hut the Government’s aims are unalterable. This or that person may be killed, but it is impossible to niter the ideal inspiring the Government. Hence they must be met by force.

DIRECTOR OF PRISONS SHOT. Received 7th, 10.20 p.m. Six soldiers shot the director of (ho fortress prison in Warsaw and liberated 56 revolutionary committeemen. BRITISHERS BEATEN. Mr Fraser, the Standard's correspondent, and his secretary were among the two thousand arrested at Warsaw and convened to the yard of the. governor's palace where they were beaten by Circassian guards. Tim intervention of General Scalon’s adjutant probably alone saved their lives.