AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8996, 5 December 1907, Page 5

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

THE CZAR AND THE DUMA. Received December 4, 8.59 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 3. The Czar annotated the Duma's address. He says he willingly believes in the sentiments expressed, and that he will await productive work. THE VLADIVOSTOCK MUTINY. TWENTY SAPPERS SENTENCED TO BE SHOT. Received December 4, 7.47 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 3. Twenty sappers at Vladivostock were sentenced to be shot for their pa'"t in the recent mutiny. Other« were sentenced to penal servitude. A "S3.WE" SUFFRAGETTE. NOT AFRAID OF MICE. Received December 4, 10 a.m. LONDON, December 3. Students broke up Miss Pankhurst's suffragist meeting at Nottingham. They liberated tame mice on the platform, but Miss L Pankhurst caught and fondled them. CARFU&GE OF MAILS. THE "ALL RED" ROUTE. EXCELLENT PROSPECTS OF A SATISFACTORY SCHEME. Received December 4, 9.57 p.m. LONDON, December 4. The Hon.W. P. Reeves, High Commissioner for New Zealand, thinks that there is an excellent prospect of the "All Red" Route Committee recommending a scheme for an Atlantic Pacific service affording the desired SDeed and not involving a prohibitive subsidy. He considers it unlikely that the British Government will subsidise the Atlantic section only, since that wouH not afford the Imperial advantages desired.