RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11555, 16 February 1906, Page 3

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

London, February 14. Tho '.'Times" St. Petersburg corfoaporfdent states that it is intended to piirohaso.fif. ooo,ooo "acres of private (aXds, tor allotment to peasants, paying fctio o'wjVofs i : rf bc-ntis yi'eldtug five per cent. , , , , Sfc Petersburg, tefflti&iy 14. Six masked revolutionaries entered the Savings Bank at St. Petersburg and fired thirty shots, demanding ihe cash. They killed a policeman and wounded three depositors. The cashier felled one of the revolutionaries, who was arrested, but the rest m. , . . A , „ Thfe' soldier?) at Tiflis arrested and searched tM TufKlsK Consul-, General. ■ ■ a The "Vorwarts" publishes M. j Durnovo's secret despatch instructing the Governors to exterminate (not arrest) rioters, and burn their houses, stating that it was imperative to oppose the monstrous despotism of revolutionaries by the strongest remedies, or the Empire would be ruined.