Russia.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3700, 31 July 1906, Page 3

Russia.

STRIKES PROBABLE. DOUMA’S DECLARATION CIRCULATED. COUNT WITTE’S VIEWS. A SERIOUS OUTRAGE. St. Petersburg, July 29. The Socialists of Russia are organising the working masses for a general strike, though a joint conference of. the revolutionary committee held on the border of Finland resolved not to declare a strike at present. The manifesto which was issued bv the members of the Duma at Viborg is circulating in immense numbers, the printers eluding the vigilance of the police. The Bishops of Nishninovgorod, Kieff, and other cities held thanksgiving services to celebrate the dissolution of the Duma. Count Witte stated that the majority of the foreign statesmen had adopted a correct attitude towards Russia in her present trials, and he declined to believe that, one regrettable exception expressed the true feeling of the English nation. London, July 29.

The Daily Telegraph publishes an interview with Count Witte, ex-Russian Premier. In this the latter declared it was a mistake that reforms had not long since been introduced. The peasants were firstly in need of the right of personal property, and secondly it was the duty of

the State to supply the peasants with more land. But the Duma was wrong, and the Government was compelled to choose between a revolution organised under cover of legality, and the dissolution of the Duma. The Czar will in a few months convoke a new Duma. Ten Polish revolutionaries held up a train with a saloon carriage conveying General Zukato, Chief of the Frontier Guards, General Westerning, Chief of the Warsaw Customs, and six other officials. The guards and the occupants of the saloon were shot dead, including the generals. The revolutionaries escaped with fifteen thousand roubles, after wounding gfcV&ml Other passengers. , The Novoe Vremya states that complete plans for an insurrection, enumerating the participating organisations have been found m the newspaper Mysl’s building.