RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8189, 25 July 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE CZAR'S UKASE,

CIPHER MESSAGE FROM THE

KAISER.

Received July 24, 8.27 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, July 23

The Czar received a cipher message of a thousand words from the Kaiser before he published the ukase.

RECEPTION OP THE NEWS

A SEMI-OFFICIAL MESSAGE

Received July 24, 9.11 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, July 23,

It is semi-officially declared in St. Petersburg that the news of the dissolutiou was quietly received in the capital and at Moscow, and that :the normal course of life is undisturbed.

SURPRISE IN BERLIN

Received July 2*, 10.30 p.m. BERLIN, July 24.

The dissolution has aroused surprise in Berlin, and a little unreserved condemnation.

AN ALL-NIGHT SITTING.

Received July 24, 8.27 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, July 23.

Two hundred Labour members of the Duma aDd Folea held an allnight Bitting at Viborg, discussing the manifesto.

If the meeting is interfered with the party will go to Stockholm.

MILITARY DICTATORSHIP ANTICIPATED.

SERIOUS CONFLICTS POSSIBLE.

Received July 24, 8.27 a.m. LONDON, July 23

The members representing the Duma at the inter-Parliamentary Conference are returning to Russia. M. Anikine, one of the delegates, anticipates that a military dictatorship will {be established over Russia, and that grave oonfliots will ensue, especially in the rural districts.

THE JEWS' APPEAL.

Received July 24, 9.11 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, July 23,

The Jews in Russia have telegraphed to Mr Israel Zaugwill asking him to try and prevent bloodshed, as they anticipate an orgaaised massacre.

A DROP IN BONDS. Received July 24, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, July 23. Russian bonds have dropped two points.

Received July 24, 10.30 p m. PARIS, July 24.

There has been a sharp fall in Russian securities in Paris, where the Czar is considered to have committed a bad blunder.

EVERY INDICATION OF ANOTHER MASSACRE.

Received July 24, 10.55 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, July 24.

Under the pretence of revenging the death of a drunken Cossack, who was killed at Odessa while attacking the Jews, his comrades have com • menced sacking the shopß. There is every indication of a massacre, ainoe the authorities are indifferent. The Jews have been informed that if aqother Cossaak suffered the streets would run knee deep in blood. They are accused of inoitmg all the terrorising acts.

COUNCIL OF THE EMPIRE

SESSION SUSPENDED. Received July 24,10.48 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, July 24. The Session of the Russian Council of the Empire has been suspended until March.

THE DUMA DISSOLVED,

Reoeived July 24, 10.50 p.m. LONDON, July 24

Router's St Petersburg correspondent states that Grand Duko Nicholas' warning of the alarming growth of the revolutionary propaganda in the army induced the Czar to preoipitate the dissolution of the Duma.

MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED, Received July 24, 10.25 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, July 24. Martial law|has been proclaimed in the territory of the Don Cossacks.

DUMA'S MANIFESTO TO THE

PEOPLE

Received July 21, 8.56 p.m.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 24.

About two-thirds of the members of the Duma have signed a manifesto to tbe Russian people recounting tbe efforts made by the Duma to secure greater freedom for the nation, the dismissal of a Ministry which infringes the laws with impunity, and the passage of a law securing land for the working peasantry by absorbing Crown and Cburoh lands and the oompulsorj! expropriation of private estates. The Government holding such law inadmispahle, dissolved the Duma, promising to convoke a new Duma seven months hence. Though the oouutry was on the brink of ruin, iuduetry and com-

CABLE NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright,

merce undermined, the people seething with unrest, and although the Ministry had shown incapacity to do justice to popular needs, .\ et the Government proposed, lor seven months, to continue to act arbitrarily and fight a popular movement in order to obtain a pliable and subservient Duma. ShoulJ the Government succeed 10 suppressing the popular movement they would not convoke the Duma. The manifesto appeals to the citizeusto stand up for ths trampled on vishts of popular representation, and for an Impurial Duma. "Russia must not remain a day without popular representation. You possess the means nf acquiring it. The Government, without the assent of popular representatives, had no right to col'.ect taxes or summon people for military service. Now the Government had dissolved th<* Duma the people were justified iu giving neither money noi soldiers. All the loans raised by the Government without the aonsent of popular representatives would be invalid. The nation would never acknowledge the liability. No power can resist the united inflexible will of the people."