RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11735, 18 September 1906, Page 3

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

St. Petersburg, September 16. Russia is granting passports freely to facilitate the emigration of Jews. Twenty thousand recently left Bielostok, and five hundred families left Kieff during the past week. Sixteen hundred Jews sailed from Libau in a single day. Reoeived September 17, 10.59 p.m. London, September 17. The "Times'' St. Petersburg correspondent states that owing to the ghastly massacre at Siedlce the Goteminent has drafted provisional rules granting the"Jews a large measure of equality, right to travel and sojourn, and acquire lands,except what belong to peasants. The police at Warsaw discovered the headquarters of a revolutionary organisation in Lesno street, and seized bombs, papers and important documents. Two Terrorists have been executed in the Citadel. Lieutenant Shadnoviski, the ringleader of the sapper mutiny at Kieff, has been sentenced to be shot. General Diedienlin, Commander of the Gendararmie, has succeeded General Trepoff as Commandant at the Palace. Seventeen million sterling is required for famine relief in Russia, necessitating a loan.