RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11751, 6 October 1906, Page 3

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

St. Petersburg, October 4.

After a sharp conflict ten persons were arrested at St. Petersburg lor a daring attempt to rob Customs messengers who were carrying departmental salaries. Forty bombs and two poods of dynamite were found in the students' library at the State Engineering Institute. The owner of the bombs, a student named Fink, waa arrested. Seventy unfilled bombs and 200 revolvers were seized elsewhere.

Dzian Kowsky, captain of the Third Grenadiers, has been assassinated at Moscow, owing to his brutal suppression of an outbreak which occurred at a prison. Boutirsk, an assassin, escaped. M. Stolypin permits the Constitutional Democrats to mset at Helsingfors. Sunday's deliberations will be private — the Press excluded. The deputation conveying the British address to the late Duma has not been permitted to use the nobility's assembly hall, St. Petersburg, for the purpose of the presentation. Advices from various sources show that daily revolutionary 'meetings are held at "Riga. At one of these meetings 20 or 30 soldiers followed the spokesman, and said that half the garrison declaro that the army must rise simultaneously with che city proletariat and peasant.

Received October 5,^10.2 p.m.

St. Petersburg, October 5. , The Czar and family are at Pefcerhof, L _„ , . , A bomb thrown at Simbirsk wouhdod General Starynkevitcu, the Governor General, seriously, assailant escaped. A bomb thrown at Tiflis killed an officer, and wounded several. Ten terrorists at Ozom?tochowa were condemned to be shot to-day.

Received October 6, 1.5 a.m.

Ifc is semi-oeffiially announced that sailors at . Kronetadt executed the sentence on nineteen mutineers.

Paris, October 5.

The "Temps" Viborg correpson dent states" that M. Kokortsoff, Minister for Fiaunca, iv a confidential report to M. Stolypin, estimates th« deficit at fifteen and a hall millions sterling on tbe current year.

This, be 'declares, id due to Various departments recklessly exceeding fb£ estimates. J,He asks tnat^his report are^submitted to the Czar, and that the" latter be urged to allow tae departments, particularly, ;the War Office, to withdraw or reduce any demands admitting of postponement.