AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.
.TROUBLE CONTINUES. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. tv ST. PETERSBURG, March 7. A remarlwhlo scene preceded the Signing of the rescript. Even the most reactionary Minister warned .the Czar to concede the elective principle. The Czar at first angrily refuted compliance, and was left standing alone. Ultimately he signed it, after adding a sentence guar- '■ anteeing the preservation of the fundamental laws of the Empire. It is officially announced that ‘ the Chidloutky Commission, failed,‘owing ' to the workmen refusing to elect irp-" . presen tatives. All traffic on the tnans,Baikal-rail-way has been suspended for three. • - ' days. ; . Strikers at Ohila fired many’tvs.g-gon-loa’ds of army provisions,- insisting on a cessation of the war. - LONDON, March 7: The Times version of the Putiiofi strike states that the explosion killed many workmen, and 'terrorised ’ -the ■ rest'. All joined in the strike. The Standard states that 130,000 Mingrelians and Ossetes and other landless mountaineers in the Western Caucasus are in open rebellion.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1399, 9 March 1905, Page 2
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