AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1489, 24 June 1905, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

.THE CZAR'S SPEECH, By, Electric .Telegraph— Per Press . Association —Copyright. ST. PETERSBURG, J,une'2th£» I IP Courtiers at Pctenholf telephoned early on Tuesday, morning to stefp, publication of the Czar’s speech, ,to tho zemstvos, but were unable rto communicate with newspapers outside tho capital, hence Harbin received the news 24 hours before St, Fetcisburg. The courtiers then deliberately tried to whittle down t'hc Czar's declared intention to summon a national Assembly, especially; tho expression, ■*>’ I hope from, -this day, forth the relations between me arid my, people will enter! new, pll'ase.v . A m ajority, of tho Council of Mi Pieters, resisting M- Bulyguine s scheme, voted algainst class suffrage.. .The zemsiavosja declared, . that the Czar’s slccech promising proper representation implies an Assembly representing the whole n;aoion Without distinction of class,, race, or croedv It is now hoped that M. B.ulyguine's proposals wilt he discarded in favor, of the zcmslvosts' scheme. Tho Governor of Ufa, who had been! previously terrorising S-ho municipality, received a report of the Czar.’s speech, which announced that the m-urioiipjalitiesi would be free to; discuss reform. An anti-Government demons,trg,tiOiS took place at Lo'dzFifty thousand men marched the . streets with rer flagsCossacks anil dragoons from the side streets advanced,, firing volleys, killing eighteen and wounding*! one hundred.; /-