THE NATIONAL DUMA FRANCHISE.
Serious Inequalities. Intense Indignation in Odessa. (Received Aug. 24, 10.17 p.m.) St. PETERSBURG, Aug. 24. There are 5000 Duma voters in St. Petersburg, 12,000 in Moscow, and 7000 in Odessa, wilh rental qualification.
Indignation in Odessa is intense, because with half a million, inhabitants the city is allowed only one deputy, the same as Kirsk, with 50,000 inhabitants.
The organisation of an electoral campaign is everywhere forbidden. Governors ot districts are imprisoning and exiling many leading Libera* voters. The officials announce that they arc entrusted with the electoraf arrangements, and the Zemlsvos and municipalities will not te allowed to co-operate.
GRAYE DISTORBAKCES. Incendiarism, Pillage and Harder. (Received Aug. 25, 1.7 a.m.) St. PETERSBURG, Aug. 24. Grave disturbances occurred in various parts of Courland (a Baltic province) yesterday. Incendiarism, pillage and murders were rife. The Oar's portraits were destroyed, and public buildings and fanners' houses fired.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7908, 25 August 1905, Page 3
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149THE NATIONAL DUMA FRANCHISE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7908, 25 August 1905, Page 3
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