REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA.
THE CZAZ AMBITIOUS
United Press Association —Copyright Received October 19, 9.47 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, -October 19. The Tomsk University has been closed indefinitely.
M. Witts, informally conferring with influential reformers, asserts that the Czar is sincerely desirous of meeting tho wishes of th© nation, and has the greatest desir© to became a constitutional sovereign like King Edward. He only 'hesitated to grant a constitution because he >was net convinced that the notion desired it. The reformers are profoundly sceptical a-nd suspicious, and there is much dissatisfaction at the limited franchise under the Duma, there being only 13,000 electors at St. Petersburg out of a population of 1,400,000.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12632, 20 October 1905, Page 5
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110REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12632, 20 October 1905, Page 5
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