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i 0 | WHOLESALE ARRESTS. GREAT EXCITEMENT IN WARSAW. (Received Aug. 21, 8.57 p.m.) St. PETERSBURG, Aug. 21. Mounted police . dispersed several thousand revolutionaries noting at Kishineff. After the publication of the Czar's manifesto wholesale arrests were made at Lodz. There is great excitement in Warsaw, and troops occupy several streets. A Socialist meeting was dispersed. THE DUMA SCHEME. Abolishes ZemstYos' Privileges.
St. PETKRSIIURG, Aug. 21
| Directly the manifesto was published the Governor oi Moscow announced that the privileges of meetings of the Zcmstvos under the ukase were abolished, and further discussion of constitutional questions would not be allowed.
A supplementary decree appoints a I Commissioner to consider the procedure of election, of the Duma in Poland, Siberia and the Caucasus.
RECEIVED WITHOUT REJOICINGS. Tbe Press Unsatisfied. (Received Aug. 21, 9.57 p.m.) St. PETERSBURG, Aug. 21. There were no rejoicings over the Duma scheme.
The Novoe Vreraya and Slovo are the only newspapers which eulogise it; the Liberal organs demand the freedom of the press and o[ speech, and contend that the high rental qualification deprives all the urban proletariat and a,great portion of the intellectuals of the franchise.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7905, 22 August 1905, Page 3
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