REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 18 June 1907, Page 3

REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA.

THE DOUMA- DItsSOLA EDdisplay of MILITARY force. St. Petersburg, June 16. The Coniniision of the Douma being unable to conclude its work before Mondav, requested the examining magistrate to supply particulars of every accusation. Subsequently an Imperial Ukase wa. issued dissolving the Douma. The new elections are fixed for September. Two hundred infantry and two trams filled with Cossacks are standing ready at every railway station in S;. Petersburg. Deputy O-kol, at whose residence the' revolutionary organisation met, iicd from St- Petersburg, but was afterwards captured. A COMMAS DAM MURDERED. St. Petersburg, June 10. Colonel kotlarol), deputy eoumiaiid'ant at the port of St. Petersburg, was assassinated. CZAR'S MANIFESTO. "RESOLVED TO COMPLETE GREAT WORK OF REFORMATION '' Received 17th. 10-25 p.m. St Petersburg, June 17. The Czar, in a manifesto dated yesterday attributes the deadlock, partly to the defects of the electoral law which returns members not truly represent- ( ative of the needs and desires of the beople and who do not uphold the mani- | festo of the 30th October and other rights conferred by fundamental laws. He considered the Douma ought to be Russian in spirit, inasmuch as it summoned to strengthen the Russian Btate. - r. Therefore the other nationalities ol ' ' the Empilfc ought not, and shall not, he i 6ays, he represented by such numbers as will enable them to be the arbiters of <■ purely Russian questions. The manifesto adds: "The Czar, who j -is sole giver of electoral law and alone j able to abrogate it, substitutes another which the Senate will forthwith promulgate." He continues: "Firstly I am resolved to complete the great work of reformation. I look to my faithful subjects for a united, vigorous service in the direction indicated for the country whose Bons at all times hax'e been firmly sup- ° porting its strength, greatness and glory." g

DISSOLUTION QUIETLY KECJ2IVED IN THE CAPITAL. SHE CITY FULL 01' TROOPS. NEWSPAPERS MUZZLED. ' Received 17th, 10.25 p.m. St. Petersburg, June 17. The dissolution of the Douma was quietly received in St. Petersburg. The city was full of troops. . Newspiper criticism is prohibited. Nine accused deputies were arrested. Many arrests have also been made at •.WarsawThe Council of the Empire has been prorogued until November. PLOT TO SEIZE A SQUADRON. 'FRUSTRATED BY OFFICERS. HASTENING THE DISSOLUTION OF THE DOUMA. A COMMANDANT MURDERED. Keceived 17th, 11.29 p.m. St. Petersburg, June 17. Sailors on two Russian warships at Jendra Island plotted to throw the officers overboard and seize the whelo of the squadron under Admiral Tsiwinsky. The officers frustrated the planSixty arrests have beqj madeIt is understood tint the street figh;fog at Sevastapol following the Teudrn iSsnd mutiny hastened the dissolution of the Douma-

Colonel Guessekowski, Deputy ComTbandaut at Seva.stapol harbor, has teen assassinated. The murderer has been arrested.