RUSSIA AFFAIRS

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13315, 18 June 1907, Page 5

RUSSIA AFFAIRS

ASS ASSINATION' AT ST. PETERS- • IIURG. Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright ST. PETERSBURG, Jtriie 16. Colonel Kot-laroff, Deputy Commandant of the' 'Port- of St. Petersburg, • has -betm assassinated. A QUIET HKCKJ'TIOX. ARREST OF DEPUTIES. Received 10.25 p.m., June 17th. ST. I'IvT'ERSBURG, June 17. The dissolution of the- Douma was quietly received -in .St. P.etevslmrg', " The city is full of troops. Newspaper criticism is prohibite:!. Nine -of the accused deputies were arrested, and many arrests -have .also been made in Warsaw. The Council of the Empire has been prorogued until November. THE CZAR'S MANIFESTO. Received 10.30 -p.m., June 17tli. ST. PETERSBURG. June 17. The Czar, ih a 'manifesto dated yesterday. attributss the deadlock partlv to 'the r of Parliament., "partly to defects in the' electoral' la-w which returns members not truly"representative cif the needs and desires of the people. It upholds the manifesto of 30th October and other rights conferred b ythe fundamental laws, aiid ronsiders.-that-the Dauma ought to be Russian in spirit, inasmtioli' as it was summoned to strengthen the Russian State, there-' fo ; re, olier nationalities of the Empire ought rict and shall not be represented" in sucii : mrmbert aW •to enable them to be arbiters of purely Russian nue?:tions. Tlie manifesto, adds that the Czar who i* the sole "•iver of electoral law and' alone tfbie to ■-fiibro'saite it, substitutes another which the Senate will forthwith promulgate. ' "' The manifesto then continues "Firstly, I am resolved to complete the great work of reformation, and T look to mv faithful sidjjeots for united vifforous service in the direction indicated, for the connfrv. whose sons, at all times have been its 'firm sun-. ! port, its strength, its greatness. and its glory!" | THE DOUMA AGAIN DISSOLVED. CAPTURE OF A DEPUTY. ST. PETERSBURG, June 16. M. Stolypin, finding that the Court." was unable to conclude its wbrk before Mon r day, requested the examining Magistrate to supply .particulars oi every accusation. Subsequently ah Imperial itkase was issued dissolving tlie Douma. The new elections are fixed for September. . Two hundred infantry, and two trains 'filled -with Cossacks are standing ready at every railway station in. St. Petersburg. Deputy Olisolo. at whose residence revolutionary organisations met, fled from St. Petersburg, but- was afterwards captured. WHOLESALE MUTINY. STREET FIGHTING.AT SEVASTOPOL. ANOTHER ASSASSINATION. Received 1L29 .p.m., June. 17th. ST. PETER-SBURG, June 17. The sailors on two Rtts&ian warships at Tendra Bland plotted- to throw the officers overboard, and to seize the squadron under Admiral The officers frustrated the plan, and 60 arrests wire made. • - 1 . It is understood that the street fighting at Sevastopol, following on. the Tendlra Island mutiny, hastened the dissolution of the Douma. < Colonel Guessekowskv, deputy-(command-ant of Sevastopol liarbotir, has been, assassinated. His mimlerer was arrested.