Troubles in Russia

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1387, 26 July 1905, Page 2

Troubles in Russia

♦— Czar Meets tlte Kaiser * Mutual Visits Long and Private Conversation Ihe Object of the Meeting, Sensational Pr«i Association.—Copyrtaht. ~ v ' (Received Thid Day, 9.30.) ;','\" St Petersburg, Julji2s The German and Russian Imperial yachts Hoherizollern' and Pole Star anchored in Bjoerkoe' Sounds on Sunday evening, and the Kaiser, by means of a' boat, visited the Czar, ; who on returning supped aboard the Hohenzollem, remaining .two and a kalfhonrs iii conversation. ■[. ; The Emperors breakfasted and, | lunched together aboard "the''. Pole Star, the Czar [afterwards returning r to St. Petersburg. - Nothing has been.disclosed' re- ; garding the topics discussed. '„,•'. London, July 25 In European capitals the most divergent and wildest views prei vail. Some of the German newspapers declare that the interview was designed to prepare the way for France and Germany uniting to finance the Russian indemnity, resulting in the formation of a triple alliance lo influence the policy in the Far East, and to isolate Great Britain.' Murders at Libati j ■ , _., ■''.:■' B s St. Petersburg, Jaly SJS Much secrecy is-observed regard. , ing the disturbance's tit Libau, where n a number of, revolutionaries and r several gendarmes have been killed. 0 . Baron Prevern, (he peasant commis* 0 Bioner, was treacherously shot to-day 0 near Libau. i The Zemstvos Conference a ■_ //■■:;■■ •.'■■! , » A Coonter Move , it i n ' ~. . . I, ST, PETERSBUR«,'JIIIy 25 j As a counter-move to the Zemstj vos Conference, M, lonemkyh, head 0 of the commission appointed by the is Ozar to inquire into the condition of a the peasants,'proposes that the Czar's fl aides-de-camp, visit the towns arid 1 invite representatives of every class I lo decide by vote whether they pre- ,[ fer to elect members to the Imperial uDuma on a class basis or riot, the io 1 peasants at the same time to be informed that the Czar will give them more land. It is supposed that this will render the peasants indifferent, pei.4 haps hostile, to the Zemstvos. 12 '...'■'