TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.
PEASANTS SACK PUBLIC
BUILDINGS.
Bjs Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association.,
St. Petersburg, August 16. Peasants in Courland district sack 22 municipal buildings, and destroyed tho official documents and conscription lists. They took all the money belonging to the State. Peasants in Kapvonia invaded many estates and killed three landowners. , A court-martial at Odessa sentenced two young men and a girl to 20 and 13 years’ penal servitude for keeping explosives.
DEMANDS OP THE PEABANTS’ ONION
By telegraph, Press Ass n, Copyright Reoeived 8.57 p.m., Aug. 17. St. Petersburg, August 17. The Moscow congress of the Peasants' Union, comprising 200 members from all parts of Rassia, has adopted resolutions demanding universal suffrage for both sexes, regular parliament initiating legislation for the controlling of the national finances, supervising the administration and utilisation of monastery land for the purposes of peasant proprietorship, compulsory free elementary education, uncotnpnlsory religious instruction and secularisation. The movement is described as a universal upheaval beyond the control of the authorities.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1536, 18 August 1905, Page 3
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