TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.
SHOOTING AT THE CROWD. ‘ By; -holograph*, Pros* A'su’n,, Copyright Bt. Petersburg, Oct. 20. Count de Witte, speaking before M. Solsky’s Commission, urged immediate legislation to ensure liberty of the person, press, conscience, and meeting : also the neoessity for the Government to 00-operate with the moderate elements of society. Received 4,30 p.m., Oct 22. St. Petersburg, Oct 21.
A general strike has begun at Moscow, Cossacks dispersed a meeting of the revolutionary party discussing the Duma eleotioDs at, Minsk. One hundred and twenty persons were injured. Ia view of threatened demonstrations the Odessa police were ordered to shoot at the crowd at first command without firing a volley in the air as a warning.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1591, 23 October 1905, Page 2
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