RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11558, 20 February 1906, Page 3

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

St. Petersburg, February 18. General Linevitch has resigned,the fco'irfttttfrtd df the troops in the East, owing .3 hk fdilufe-Jto quell!) the disturbances. General; Grodekoff has succeeded him. The Socialists in Poland pillaged five Government alcoholic stores. The loot in one store amounted to 5000 roubles. "~ZZZZP**& Eight conspirators have beon arrested at Kieff for extortiDg money for revolutionary purposes. The means used was to send threatening letters signed by anarchists. A truck of Vladivostok good 9 was being unloaded at the St.SPotersburg fetation, when a case exploded, killing three people. The truck was found to contain fifty-four similar cases. Tho drivors and brakesmen of the train by shunting the engine prevented a disaster. The cases were removed to a siding, where they exploded scathlessly. .