Russia.

Temuka Leader, Issue 5420, 28 July 1906, Page 1

Russia.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 21. The Viborg Conference has ended. It is expected that a widespread endeavor will be made to turn the army against (he Government.

The houses of members of the Duma in St. Petersburg are being searched. An exodus of Jews is proceeding from Odessa, where serious disturbances have occurred.

Bombs were thrown at the • Singer Sewing Machine Works at Losnowiee and Benden, in Poland. Many persons were injured at each place. Russian fours are quoted at 67-i at St. Petersburg. July 23. Tire first military outbreak resulting from the present situation, has occurred at Brestlitovsk, where tK.V siege artillery and two companies of fortress artillery mutinied. Yladikavka's regimen with machine guns surrounded them and arrested all the fortress artillery, and two hundred and forty of iho siege artillery ; also a number of engineers. The mutineers wounded General SvanofT, and another officer and destroyed ilia Officers' Club.

Sixty-five members of two of the most 'important socialist revolu.iioiwyl committees in Moscow have been arrested, including the principal strike organisers. The police have confiscated the St. Petersburg newspapers wholesale.

The Odessa authorities enjoin private citizens to surrender their arms on pain of exile. Eight Jews have already been killed.

M.Stolypinc warns all governors and prefects that the struggle has begun against the enemies of society. Disturbances and revolutionary movements must be suppressed by all legal means.

British ships have been warned that (hoy are likely to be overhauled in ihe Baltic by Russian warships'in order to prevent clandestine importation of explosives. General Trepoff asserts that the revolutionists will be all in slrait-jnck-ets before long, despite the bowlings of Western Europe.

July 20. • The workers of Russia appear adverse to an immediate general strike. The Government arc circulating a statement, alleging that the Duma, from the first and throughout its existence, tried to overstep all the limits of the law in usurping the functions of the Government.

Then} has been a marked and rapid rise at St. Petersburg and Moscow in all Russian securities.

Odessa is quieter, though 10,000 Jews are encamped in the courtyard of (he Jewish Hospital, being afraid to return to their homes.

LONDON, July 25. *--The Times stales that the deputies will be allowed to return to St. Petersburg, though the governors are reminded that they are no longer immune from arrest.

It. has transpired that the dissolution of the Duma was decided upon ten days ago. Before the Duma began to discuss their appeal to the people, M. Stolynine undertook to pacify the country with prudent reforms, while strongly upholding authority. It is believed that he hnd already made overtures (o the constitutional democrats to join the Cabinet. July 20.

A British address of sympathy and friendship with the Russian people, and the members of the Duma, is be'ng largely signed, chiefly by inlluenand editors of Radical newspapers. The signatures include those of George Meredith, Wr William Watson, and Lords Brassoy and Welbv. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 25 Turkish censorship has prohibited a U reference to the Duma in the news-

papers. ______________ THE NATAL REVOLT. PIETERMARTBZBURG, July 25. Thirty-eight Zulus were sentenced to two years' imprisonment. They admitted that they had no grievance, and only rebelled because their chiefs ordered thorn to do so. Judge Beaumont has been appointed to hold an independent inquiry into the Bishop of Zululand's charges. All the photographs of Bambatta's head have been confiscated by the authorities. «