RUSSIA.
THE SIXTY-FIVE MILLION LOAN.
REPRIEVE OF PRISONERS
United Press Association. Copyright
LONDON, Jan. 14
Of the impending Russian loan of £65,000,000 sterling, £6,000,000 will 1)0 reserved for the London market, and £1,200,000 for Amsterdam. The remainder will be floated by France. A sum of £32,000,000 of the French allotment will be devoted to redemption of treasury bonds issued in 1904. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 14.
The Czar reprieved the Ekaterinoslaff prisoners, and also other prisoners, -and reduced numerous terms of servitude.
[The Ekaterinoslaff prisoners referred to were 32 railway workmen sentenced for participating in a railway str.ko in 1905. They had been allowed to pursue their, avocations peacefully for three,years, and were then sentenced to death. There were many protests, against the sentences.]
Commercial travellers in -Sweden are compelled to take out a licence, costing 100 crowns—about £5 10s—a month, or they incur the risk of being fined. ; . ■ ' i.A
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2401, 16 January 1909, Page 5
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