THE RUSSIAN TURMOIL
TRIAL OF DOUAIA AIEAIBERS AND OTHERS. ON A CHARGE OF TREASON. THEY . DECLARE THE ACCUSA TION BASELESS. 100,000 STUDENTS AND WORK MEN STRIKE IN SYMPATHY. United Press Association —Copyright (Received Dec. 6, 10.14 p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 6. The trial of 37 Social Democratic members 'of the second Domna- and 17 soldiers and civilians for complicity in an alleged military regicidal plot, has begun here. A public hearing was refused thereupon the accused asked to be .sent hack to prison, and instructed tfheir counsel to withdraw. The prosecution then proceeded ir - their absence. -• _ ' The party issued a statement that tlie accusation was baseless, but’only a pretext to justify alteration of,the electoral law. ■ A hundred thousand workmen am students of St. Petersburg and Moscow struck in. sympathy with the accused. -
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2057, 7 December 1907, Page 3
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