TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.
By telegraph. Press’AWn, .Copyright Berlin. Sept. 26_.
M. de Witte will be the chief Russian delegate to tbe Hague Convention. He has arrived bore bn his return from America, and received an ovation. . He had an interview with Baron Richthofen, Minister of Foreign Affairs. St. Petersburg, Sept. 25. Professor Melinkoff, of St. Petersburg University, arrested for taking part iu the National elections, has been released. He declares that ihe.professional leagues.favor participation in the elections. , •f: The Peasants' Union of Russia, entirely composed of mujiks, enrolled 200,000 mlimbers in 1905, pledged to demand reforms. Political unions and professional classes embrace 50,000.
An Englishman who was rescued from Baku asserts that the massacres were the outcome of tbe Armenian revolutionary committee’s failure to induce the Tattars to join in a general rising. When the Government authorised tbe Tartars to settle the matter, the Armenians attacked the Tar 1 ars.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1569, 27 September 1905, Page 2
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