RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8229, 5 September 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

GENERAL TREPOPP'S POSITION.

Received September 4, 7.23 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 3. It is persistently reported here that the Czar has dismissed General Trepoff, Governor-General of St. Petersburg, who has during the past two years carried out a policy of repression with ruthless severity. The report states that General Trepoff is seriously ill, and that his Majesty has placed him on the retired list, thanking him for his fidelity, and ordering his complete rest. The step is considered to be most significant at the present junuture.

HOW THE OZAK IS SAFEGUARDED.

SURROUNDED BY SOLDIERS.

Reoeived September 4, 8.30 a.m. NEW YORK, September 3. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the New York World states that the Czar habitually wears a coat of mail, and takes exercise in a meadow surrounded by soldiers. Any one approaching without leave is shot, even while bearing the Czar a message.

SOLDIERS SHOOT ONE OF THE CZARINA'S MAIDS.

Reoeived September 5, 12.11 a.m. NEW YORK ; September 4. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the New York World states that one of the Czarina's maids was Bhot by soldiers while approaching the Czar with a message.

ANOTHER GENERAL WOUNDED,

Received Sepember 4, 8.45 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 3. Miscreants at Warsaw, armed with revolvers, seriously wounded General Tremenkoff, who suppressed the disturbances at Riga.

SEN DENOES COMMUTED,

Reoeived September 4, 8.45 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG", Sept. 3. Twenty-two death sentences imposed on the Sveaborg rioters have recently been commuted to penal servitude for life.

SCENE AT A FUNERAL,

Received September 4, 8.50 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 3. During the funerallprooession of a workman who was killed by Cossacks near Warsaw, the mourners displayed a red flag, whereupon the Oossaoks interfered, killing six and wounding 22.

CONDUCTING SECRET MEETINGS.

Received September 4, 10.19 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 4. Fourteen officers and dootors have been arrested at Odessa for conducting seuret meetings of soldiers in connection with the Military Terrorist Organisation, whioh aims at the extermination of all authorities. Extensive correspondence with other revolutionary bo lies has bebn seized.

A SOLID ANTI-GOVERNMENT BODY.

REVOLUTIONARY ORGANISATIONS GOMBUNE.

Received September 5, 1 a.m. LONDON, September 4. Renter's St. Petersburg correspondent writes that all the revolutionary organisations have combined into a solid anti-Government body.