RUSSIA.
THE MEETNG QP THE DUMA, Reoeived March 9, 8.30 a.iib ST. PETERSBURG, March 8. The Duma meets at the Tauride Palace, in St. Pefceisburg. Accommodation has been provided for 564 deputies'. The Imperial manifesto defining the powers of the Duma has evoked bifter disappointment. The press denounces the Duma as a mere moouery, hedged about by a bureaucratic Upper House, and an irresponsible Ministry, and completely isolated from the constituents. """ POLITICAL PRISONERS. LOADED WITH* CHAINS. Received March 9, 8.30 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Maroh 8, Many political prisoners, loaded with irons, who are to be exiled, passed through Moscow. Twenty armed men entered a hospital in the suburb of Praga, in Russian Poland, and rescued a Socialist radke, who had been wounded in an encounter with the police. I REFUSING TO FIRE UPON REVOLUTIONARIES. UNMERCIFUL SENTENCES. Received March 9, 8.45 a.m. . ST. PETERSBURG, Maroh 8. Six artillerymen received sentences ranging from ten to twenty years at Odessa, aud twenty-four have been sentenced to minor terms, for refusing to Are upon revolutionaries.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7983, 10 March 1906, Page 5
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