RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.
MORE MASSACRES EXPECTED. United Press Association—Per Electrio Telegraph— Copyright. LONDON, June 27. ' M. Vinevar, a member of. the Duma, is informed that massacres of the Jews are being prepared for at Zhitomer, in South-western-Russia, and at Saratoff. MEETING QUIETLY QUELLED. SERIOUS MILITARY DISAFFECTION. Received 11.42 p.m., June 28th. ST. PETERSBURG, Jane 28. The meeting at Batoum was quietly quelled. It originated in- a demand for better treatment. Many of the Cossack corps ask to be relieved of police duty. The Preobagensky, a crack regiment' ofguards, which was founded by Peter the Great, tie Czar being an honorary colonel, and who frequently wears the regiment's uniform, were reprimanded. This caused an immense sensation at St. Petersburg, and is regarded as confirming, the reports of disaffection arising of the rumoured approaching dissolution of the Duma. The first battalion has now been ordered to a remote locality in the Novgorod district. The resolutions passed by the regiment included the condemnation of corporal punishment, and a demand for release from the opening of private letters. The Sempovisky regiment, formded bv Peter the Great, is equally disaffected, and repeatedly testifies its sympathy with the peasants. , _
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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 13014, 29 June 1906, Page 5
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192RUSSIAN AFFAIRS. Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 13014, 29 June 1906, Page 5
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