RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8224, 30 August 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

LAND FOR PEASANTS. GUARDING THE POLICE. Received August 29, 8.28 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 2d. The Czar has transferred to the Peasants' Bank twenty million acre 3 of the Imperial family's land for resale to the peasants, according to terms fixed. A committee, consisting of four ministers and three soldiers, guard each policeman iu the streets of Warsaw. Several oases have occurred of men riding iu cabs and firing upon the police in Moscow. A crowd of two thousand people, carrying revolutionaTy flags, fought the police at Samara, many being wounded. Thirty sailors have been arrested at Kronstadt. AN APPEAL TO 'IHE ARMY. Received August 29, 9.50 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 29. The Labour members of the late Duma [have issued another stiiking appeal, imploring the army to prefer the interests of the Fatherland and their families before those of the Czar. ANOTHER APPEAL. Received August 29, 9.50 p.tn. LONDON, August 29. ' The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Express reports that the Czar is about to issue an appeal to all officials to steadfastly scpport the Crown in a critical period, even at the risk of their lives. The Czar enjoins them to show no sympathy to those who, by wanton disobedience, have forfeited all olaims to H olemenoy and are unworthy to be termed oitizena of the Empire.

"VIRTUALLY UNCHECKED." Received august 29, 9.E0 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 29. There fare forty thousand troop at Warsaw, yet outrage and pillage is virtually unobeoked. ARRESTS ON A HUGE SOALE7 Received August 29, 9.50 p.m. {ST. PETERSBURG,"August 29. Arrests continue to be made at St. Petersburg on a buge scale. THE GOVERNMENT'S DETERMINATION. WILL ADHERE FIRMLY TO ITS POLICY. Reoeived August 29, 9.50 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 29. It is aemi-officially announced at St. Petersburg that the Government cannot yield to the Terrrrist'attacks, but will firmly adhere to its announced policy.