TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1868, 24 September 1906, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

TERRORISTS AND THE CZAR.

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST ASSASSINS

PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT St. Petersburg, Sept. 21. Yielding to pressure, M. Stolypin promised there should be no more Jewish massacres, and ordered that Jewish prisoners at Siedloe should have a oivil trial. He declared ho would legislate to remove some of the Jewish disabilities, though the Douma would be allowed to refuse Ihe proposals. The execution of Konopliannikova enraged the revolutionaries, who are circulating broadcast a manifesto vowing to remove one after another of those responsible for the oowardly, murderous autooracy. They eepeoially denounce the Czar’s dinging to power and refusing his subjects thß smallest share. The Russian Imperial Bank rate is 12 per cent., the earns as during the run in January. The Odessa district Zemstvo has informed the Governor that everything is at a standstill owing to the peasants’ refusal to pay rural taxes. Reoeived 4.25 p.m., Sept. 28. London, Sept. 22, The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Express states that the terrorists have sentenced the Czar to death and have sent their moßt desperate agents to Finland.

It is stated that the terrorists have determined to destroy the whole Russian dynasty. Reuter’s St. Petersburg correspondent reports that in consequence of a reoently discovered plot against the Czar’s life, searchlights are constantly employed nightly on both the sea and land sides of Peterhof Palaoe.

Many arrests have been made in St, Petersbnrg in connection with the plot, whioh was a deep laid one, concocted in the Palace itself by terrorists. The only detail that has been published regarding the plot is that a motor oar was seized and the ocoupants wore found to be armed.