THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA.

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8004, 8 September 1906, Page 2

THE CRISIS IN RUSSIA.

ItKPiIESSION AND KEI'UKM. ST -Pl£TKKvSßUlUi,Bept. 4. - n official communique issued at ■■" euersburg gives ;i surprisingly trank summary of tht . ombreakn, outrages and limitations of the army, and ec 'ires lh.it the revolutionaries are s riving by violence to impede the creative activity of the State and overwhelm the country with disaster. iey must have been supported by the extremists of the Duma, who endeavoured to usurp the executive* power. The revolutionaries are now see ing to frighten the Government < >y a massacre of officials. The Government's aims are unalterable, his or that person may be killed, Ut '"'Possible to kill the ideal inspiring the Government. Hence these disorders will be met by force Hie document proceeds to enumerate* exceptional police measures io be taken and to promise reforms. ST PKTKKSIiUKG, Sept. 7. Mr John Foster Eraser, the Standard s correspondent, and his secretary* wete among two thousand persons arrested at Warsaw, conveyed to the yard of the Governor's palace, and beateu by Circassian guards The intervention of General Sculon's ad. jutant probably alone saved their lives.