RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8239, 18 September 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

EMIGRATION OP JEWS. Received September 17, 8.45 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 16. Russia is granting passpoits freely to facilitate emigration of Jews. Twenty thousand recently left Bieloatok. Five hundred families have left Kieff during the past week, and sixteen hundred Jews Eailed from Libau in a single day. ~ * | "EQUALITY OF RIGHTS." Received September 17, 10.59 p.m. LONDON, September 17. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Times states that owing to the ghastly massacre at Siedlce, the Government have drafted provisional rules granting Jews in a large measure equality of rights to travel and sojourn, and to acquire land except such as belong to peasants. TERRORISTS EXECUTED. Received September 17, 10.59 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 17. Two Terrorists have been executed in the citadel. THE SAPPER MUTINY AT KIEPP. RINGLEADER SENTENCED TO RE SHOT. Received September 17, 10.59 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 17. Lieutenant Sbadnovski, the ringleader of the sapper mutiny at Kieff, has been sentenced to be shot. BOMBS SEIZED. Received September 17, 10.59 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 17. The police at Warsaw have discovered the headquarters of a revolutionary organisation in Lesno Street. They seized bombs, papers, and important documents. GENERAL TREPOFP'S SUCCESSOR. Received September 17, 10.55 p.in. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 17. General Diediulin, oommander of the Gendarmerief 1 has succeeded the late General Trepoff as commandant at Palance. RELIEF OF THE POOR. SEVENTEEN MILLION STERLING REQUIRED. Reoeived September 17, 10.50 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 17. Seventeen million sterling will be required for famine relief purposes in Russia. { This will necessitate a ioan.