TROUBLE IN RUSSIA

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1817, 25 July 1906, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA

THE CZAR AND THE DOUMA. J'HKSS ASSOCIATION— UOfYKIMIIT Bt. Petersburg, July 23. Two hundred of Ihe Doumi’s labor members and Poles of Vibotg hold an oilnight s ttiog, dieou-sing a manifesto that they proposo issuing to tbo people. If the mooting is interfered with, tbo party will go to Bookbolm, The Czar recoivod a oypher inefsnge, oontainiDg ono thousand words, from tbo Kairor brfore be published his ukas'. It is semi'Cflioially declared ut Bt. Petersburg that tbo nows of the dissoluiiou was quietly recoivod, and that in Bt. Pe(or6burg and Mofcow the normal ooureo of life was undisturbed. Russian Jaws have telegraphed to Mr Israel Zaugwill, the well-known author and Jowish patriot, a?king him to try to piovent bloodshed, They anticipate organised massaoreß of Jews to oommenco on J uly 2Btb.

Londou, July 28. M. Auekir), oqo ot the delegates {iota the Russian Doutna to the intor-Patlla-menlary Peace Congress in London, who since tbo nows of tho dissolution of the Domna is returning with his colleagues to Russia, in an interview anticipated that a military d otatorsbip would bo established over Russia, and that grave conflicts wou'd ensup, especially in the rural diatriols. Russian bonds have dropped two points in London. Teheran, July 28. Eight hundred and sixty-eight students, shopkeepers, and artisans from the Caspian district of Russia have takon refuge in tho British Embassy at Teheran, fearing persecution.

THE DOUMA’S REPLY. PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received 8.56 p.m., July 24. St. Petersburg, July 24. About two-thirds of the members of tho Douma signed a manifesto to tho Russian people, recounting their efforts to secure greater freedom of the nation, the die missal of a Ministry whioh bad infringed the laws with impunity, aud the passage of a law securing land for working pea?antry by absorbing Crown andchurob lands aod the compulsory expropriation of private estates. Government holding such a law to be inadmissible, dissolved the Douma, promising to convoke a new Djuma seven months hence. Though the country was on the brink of rnin, industry aud commerce were undermined, and people were seething with unreßt; al hough ihe Mioißlry had Bhown incapacity to do justice to popular needß, yet the Government proposed for seven months to continue to act arbitrarily, and flght the popular movemont in order to obtain a pliable, tubservient Doums. The session of the Russian Council cf the Empire has been appended until March. Maitial law has been proclaimed in the territory of the Don Ccsaaeka.

A MANIFESTO ADVOCATING REBELLION. PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 10.89 p.m., July 24. St Petersburg, July 24, The manifesto, continuing, stated that should the Government succeed in suppressing the popular movement they would not convoke the Douma. The manifesto apaeals to citizens to stand up for the trampled-on rights of popular representation and for an Imperial Douma. 11 Russia,’’ it stated, “ must not remain a day without popular representation. Yon possess the means of acquiring it. Government without rhe

assent of popular representatives has no right to collect taxes or summon the people to military service. Now that Government has dissolved the Douma, people arc justified in giving neither money nor soldiers. All loans raised by Government without the consent of popular representatives will be invalid, the nation never acknowledging liability therefor until popular representatives are summoned. Do not give a kopeck to the Throne, or a soldier to the army. Bo steadfast in your refusal. No power can resist the united, inflexible will of the people.”

ATTACK ON JEWS AND KAULBAR’S THREAT. FALL IN RUSSIAN SECURITIES. Received 10.55 p.m., July 24. St. Petersburg, July 24. On the pretext of avenging the death of a drunken Cossack who was killed at Odessa while attacking Jews, his coinrades commenced sacking the shops. There is every indication of a massacre, since the authorities arc indifferent. General lvaulbars informed the Jews that if another Cossack suffered, the streets would run knee deep in blood Ho ac eused tho Jews of inciting all the Terrorists’ acts. The Russian loan has declined to 11] discount, closing at lO.j discount in London. Paris, July 24. There is a sharp fall of Russian secuii tics in Paris, where the Czar is considered to have committed a bad blunder. Berlin, July 24 The dissolution aroused surprise at Berlin, and there is a little unreserved condemnation. London, July 24. Reuter’s S’. Petersburg correspondent states that tbo Grand Duko Niobolob’ warning of tho alarming growth of the revolutionary propaganda in tbe army induoed the Czar to precipitate a dissolution.