THE CZAR'S MANIFESTO.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12643, 2 November 1905, Page 5

THE CZAR'S MANIFESTO.

THOUSANDS IGNORANT OF ITS EXISTENCE.

WIDESPREAD JOY

Received November 1, 7.23 a.m. LONDON, October 31. Reuters St. Petersburg correspondent reports that the Czar charged Count <le Witte to arrange a unification of the work of the various Ministers of State, preliminary to his sanctioning a draft law creating a Council of Ministers.

The " Times' "St. Petersburg correspondent states that only a few thousands are aware of the manifesto, and it is doubtful whether the revolutionary leaders, who demand universal suffrage and a constituent Assembly, will be satisfied with t!he Czar's concessions.

Received Noverniber 1, 8.37 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, October 31. The manifesto was received with shouts of - joy in St. Petersburg,- Warsaw, and elsewhere, but the workmen ai*e irritated at the absence of an amnesty. Demonstrations were made in St. Petersburg all night, processions, with red flags waving, cheering the manifesto. ' .' ■ , ■ t . '. Count de Witte'sf Tecommendatadiis to the Czar emphasised the need of the equalisation of all Russians .before the law,irrespective of religions amd nationalities. :.-. ' •'. ■ ■-. " '*r . •'• '■"■■■ ■'~ ; : ; LONDON, October 31. : s Ibussi'an and other'securities have inir pi'pved on the Stock^- Exchange as the result of the manifesto-. '"'■ ; ST. PETERSBURG^ October 31. : Sixty-three you^is ancl girls are missing from Odessa. " ■'■:'■■:■"■ , ' ■ A bomlb -throTvii at the troops guarding^ the Techhologica'. Institute at St. Petei'sbuTg killed s-sveral Cossacks and wounded others. • ' *•■■ -