RUSSIA.
MORE POLICE OFFICIALS ASSASSINATED. SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND POLITICAL PRISONERS. ST. PETERSBURG, February 9. M. Kondourott', Chief of Police at Penza, East Russia, has been assassinated. The Chief of Police at Kutais, in Transcaucasia, has been murdered. Tbe actual number of political prisoners is estimated at seventy-five thousand. Before thepresentreoressive measi ures in Russia were adopted agrarian riots were prevalent iu twenty-four provinces. Riots ate now reported in forty-eight provinces. THE SEVASTOPOL FLEET. SEVERAL OFFICERS ARRESTED ■ RE-CONQUEST OF FINLAND RECOMMENDED. ' Received February 11, 4.40 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, February 10. There is a recrudescence of disaffection in the fleet at Sevastopol. Several officers wore arrested. Subsequently an unknown woman was wounded, when Admiral Ohuknin's sentry, rus'hing into the Admiral's office, killed her. The Novoe Vremya recommends the re-conquest of Finland. The Russian Government have grauted the landowners £3,500,000 sterling towards the £20,000,000 losses they have sustained. General Linievitoh reports that troops have discovered in the railway workshops at Chita a great store of revolutionaries' arms, bombs and 'pyroxyline. Many arrests hav«i been made.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7961, 12 February 1906, Page 5
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