PROVINCE IN REVOLT.
POUCE STATION STOHME3. A REPRESENTATION DEVICE. ST. PETERSBURG, August 22. The Cossacks have arrested the ringleaders of the disturbances at Riga. A mob from a factory stormed the police station to release the prisoners, but the Cossacks fired vol- j leys and hilled fifty and wounded j many. The majority of the people of the ! Baltic province of Conrland are j practically in open revolt, and martial law has been established j there. The Csar has ordered that the professional men, lawyers, doctors and others, who led the reform movement, shall not be given votes j for the National Assembly. This decision is being criticised on all hands.. The Conservatives, equally with the Liberals, resent the fact that the peasants are given a greater place in the National Duma than the residents in towns. [The preference for the peasants over townspeople is clearly due to an anxiety not to fill the Assembly with those'whose intelligence and education makes the:.; impatient of mediaeval restrictions.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 201, 23 August 1905, Page 5
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