RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8209, 13 August 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

MAINTENANCE OP PRISONERS DURING WAR. LONDON, August 10. The Tribune states that Japan is pressing Russia for the stipulated amount (or the maintenance of prisoners daring the war, payment of which is overdue.

DEPREDATIONS BY ROBBERS.

ST. PETERSBURG, Aagnst 10. Armed robbers, many of them mounted on bicycles, are terrorising the district around Moscow, desecrating and pillaging churches, and murdering inoffensive persons. THE VIBORG MANIFESTO. Reoeived August 12, 4.36 p.m. LONDON, August 11. The St. Petersburg correspondent of The Times reports that 230 members of the late Dnma, including Professor Monromtzeff (President) and Prince Dolgoruboff, are being prosecuted for signing the VJborg manifesto. V THE DOGGER BANK INCIDENT. DIARY OF A RUSSIAN ; ENGINEER. SHAMEFUL OUTRAGE." Received August 12, 4.46 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 11. The diary of Poitovsky, Admiral Rozhdestvensky's ohiaf engineer, has just been published, and describes the Dogger Bank incident. "The Russian fleet," states the writer, '"suspected that Japanese tor pedoers were all around them, and allowed the ships sighted ahead to oome nearer. We then let fly. Words fail to describe the disgraceful action that followed. A small fishing vessel, tossing helplessly in the was a target on which we concentrated our guns. The senond and third steamers wore helpless, and there was not a soul on deck. No shots were fired from the flagship Kniaz Suvaro;ff. The boats were probably those of fishermen ; but they are greatly* to blame, as they ought, at Vour approach, to have abandoned their nets and hastened aside. The . world will ring with this shameful outrage."

THEi NEiW OABlNfcif. . PURELY BUREAUCRATIC). Received AugiSst 12, 4.31 p. m. ST. PETERSBURG, Augast 11. The personnel of M. Sfcolypin's reconstructed Cabinet has been announced. As the result o£ pressure brought by the Court party the Cabinet is purely buraauoratio. Priuce Vassiltchikoff Is the new Minister for Agriculture; M. lavolsky, brother of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, is Procurator of theJHoly Synod; and M. Filosofoff is Comptroller General. SENSATIONAL SUICIDE. Received August 12, 4.36 p.m. . ST. PETERSBURG, August 11. The daughter of General Printz i committed suicide at Odessa under sensational circumstances. While approaching Genera Kanlbars, Governor of Odessa, and Gen* era! Karangozoff, apparently with the.intendon of killing them, the woman fell, and a bomb concealed in a reticule exploded.

She made an endeavour to esoape, but, being pursued, entered a hotel aod) shot beraelf with a Revolver.