M. STOLYPIN RESIGNS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1082, 22 March 1911, Page 5

M. STOLYPIN RESIGNS.

RUSSIA AND THE POLES} By Telceraph— Prcsß Association— Copyrisht St. Petersburg, March 20. The Russian Premier and Minister of the Interior, M. Stolypin, has tendered his resignation, but tho Tsar has deciiued to accept it, ; The reason for the action of M. Stolypin was that tho Council of the Empire had rejected (he Electoral Bill, which, by dividing the constßucndics according to nationalities, was intended to transfer the poweT of the Poles to Russians in the Zemstvos in the western provinces of Eussia. THE RESIGNATION ACCEPTED. NEW PREMIER APPOINTED. (Eec. March 21, 11.25 p.m.) St. Petersburg, March 21. The Tsar has accepted M. Stolypiii's resignation of the Premiership. M. Kokovstoff, Minister for Finance, has been appointed to succeed M. Stolypin, HOW POLAND IS FARING, There lack but five years of a century sinco what is known as the final partition of Poland gavo Russia, Prussia, and Austria all of that unhappy country save the city of Cracow and a small area of surrounding territory, which were erected into a republic and placed under tho protection of the great Powers. About thirty years later this republic was incorporated with Austria, in which country afyie have the Poles been permitted to exercise anything approximating autonomy. In Russia and Prussia their experiences up to the very present have been such that the long record of brutal oppression and persecution disgusts the reader. It is from the coutinuous attempts to abolish their national tongue that the Poles have probably suffered most; and here tho children, equally with their elders, have been the oppressors' victims. M. Marins-Ary Leblond in tho "Mercurc de France, 1, says: "The system of Russification dear to Pobiedonostsov, and to tho German bureaucracy of St. Petersburg can no longer be defended: its results are too obvious." After the RussoJapaneso War 40,000 Polish children marched through the streets demanding instruction in their own tongue. They obtained satisfaction; and free schools for them were authorised. But since the suppression of the revolution, all that tho Tsar granted has teen Tevoked. The private schools have been emptied bj the official inspections; and all authorisation for new establishments has been- refused.