REGICIDAL CONSPIRACY.
TRIAL OF RUSSIAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATS. HUGE STRIKE OF SYMPATHISERS. Received December 6, 10.14 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 6. The trial of 37 Social Democratic members of + .he second Duma and 17 soldiers and civilians for complicity in the alleged military regicidal plot has begun here. A public hearing was refused; thereupon the accused asked to be sent back to prison. They instructed their counsel to withdraw. The prosecution then proceeded in their absence.
The party has issued a statement that the accusation is baseless and a pretext to justify the alteration of the electoral law. One hundred thousand workmen and students in St. Petersburg and Moscow have struck in sympathy with the accused.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8998, 7 December 1907, Page 5
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115REGICIDAL CONSPIRACY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8998, 7 December 1907, Page 5
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