TROUBLE IN RUSSIA

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1821, 30 July 1906, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA

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Lennon Jolv 27 Tbe Times’ St. Peter-burg corre-pon-dent states that tbe extraordinary tranquility prevailing in the capital is more portentous then hundreds of revolutionary processions. Ere ! many weeks are passed emanoipatory movements will begin. Received 4 15 p.m., July 29. London, July 28.

Tbe Daily Telegraph publishes an interview with Count de Witte, ex-Russian Premier. He deolared that it was mistaken idea that reforms had not long since been introduced. Peasants were firstly in need of the right to personal property, and secondly, it was the bonoden duty of the State to supply peasants with more land, but the Duma was wroDg, and tbe Government were compelled to choose between a revolution organised under the cover of legality and a dissolution. The Czar would in a few months convoke a new Duma. Count de Witte further Hated that a majority of foreign statesmen had adopted tbe correct attitude towards Russia in herpresent trials. He deolined lo believe that the oDe regrettable exception pressed the true feeliDg of the Eoglish people. St. Petersburg, July 28

Socialists in Russia are organising the working masses for o general strike, though at a joint conference of the Revolationary Committee, held on the border of Finland, it was resolved not lb deolare a strike at present.

The manifesto wbiob was issued by the members of the Doma at Yiborg is being oironlated in immense numbers, the printers eludiog the vigilance of the polioe. The bishops of Yishninovgorod, Kieff, and other centres held thanksgiving cervices to oelebrate the dissolution of the Dama.