RUSSIA.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11675, 10 July 1906, Page 3

RUSSIA.

Received July 9, 9.10 p.m. j Sfc. Petersburg, J uly . Fighting is reported in various parts of Russia. Peasants armed with pitchiorks and spades have resisted tbe ti'oops. The Agrarian Committee of the Douhia had endorsed the first clause of the Constitutional Democratic programme involving a partial expropriation of private landg, the appropriation of all State, Crown, and Ecclesiastical lands for the usufruct (the temporary use and enjoyment of) the peasants. General Trepoff on being inter viewed said he attributed the upheaval principally to Jewish intrigues. He declared that the Prince Urusoff lied when he accused the authorities of generating the massacre, though there would be no j wonder if tbe much provoked officials sometimes indulged in reprisals. He denied that tbe revolu- < | tionary ferment in the army was serious. In connection with the trial of Admiral Rozhedestvensky and the officers of the Biedovy, the naval prosecutor declared that the surrender of the destroyers was a disgrace unparalleled in history. Lie first stigmatised the accused as traitors, and demanded the death j penalty. Counsel for the defence declared that the accused were only the scapegoats of an unfortunate war, and claimed their acquittal.