TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.
MORE RIOTING. DUMA SCHEME NOT POPULAR.
By telegraph. Press Aas'n, Copyright St. Petersburg, August 21. Direotly the Czar’s manifesto was published the Governor of Moscow announced that the privileges of meetings of zemstvos under the ukase had been abolished, and farther discussion of constitutional ques* tioDB would not be allowed. A supplementary decree appoints commissioners to consider the procedure and election for tho Duma in Poland, Siberia and the Oauoasus.
Reoeived 9.67 i'.m., Ang. 21.
Mounted police dispersed several thousand revolutionaries rioting at Kismnen after publication of the manifesto. * Wholesale arrests were made at Lodz. There was great excitement at Warsaw, and troops occupy several streets. A socialist meeting was dispersed. There are no rejoicings over the Duma scheme. ■ , .. The Novoe Vremya and Slovo aro the only newspapers which eulogise the scheme. ' Liberal organs demand freedom of the preßß and speech, and contend that the high rental qualification deprives all the uroan proletariat and a great portion of intellectuals of the franohise.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1539, 22 August 1905, Page 2
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