RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 13015, 30 June 1906, Page 5

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

FOMENTING MASSACRES. AX INCOORDINATE REGIMENT. KUctrie LONDON, Jrae 28. There are grave reports from Yienna that the military, in the reactionary, interest, are fomenting early massacres of Jews and Christian " intellectuals ** at- SevastojK)l. A thousand soldiers and sailors were arrested 'there .in one on suspicion, of revolutionary ; g7mpathij».A •"Black •Hundred'* meraimre,f soldiers'foi massacre, w^d.plunder, wrreeiy circulated.' With the officers' connivance the .fleet was sent on a.cruise to prevent the. protesting of >inteQecta&la.. '■t - - June 28/ • Tb>;l!irrt of t>« Preobregnp^ tions demanding land for political assassins, and release' from police dnfies." Subsequently,' the Czar •severely reprimanded the commander "for want of discipline in his regiment.

. THE COURT XN DANGER. ■■l*-' ' —r4-K ! :V< ji * Received 12.55 a.in., June 50th. : ; As Revolutionaries have been: discovered among the palace servants at Peterhof, the Court 'returns to the Tsars Koe Selo palace.": " •". . ' -JV-i- -:, - -v. The wires between Warsaw, St. Petersburg, and Moscow' are interrupted. Great alarm'is felt at Warsaw. . Six officers and 290 men of the Proebrujunsky regiment will be court-martialled. NEW YORK, June 29. .President Roosevelt has approved of the joint resolution of the House and of Congress expressing horror at the Rieldstok massacre.