A RUSSIAN TRIAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 79, 27 December 1907, Page 5

A RUSSIAN TRIAL.

..... i> \ YIBORfi MANIFESTO;. : CHARGEfAGAINST MEMBERS&CJF£THE, FIRST DUMA. DTI TEI/EGEarn—ERESa AEBOCUIIOIb-tCOfPIBIGIITi ' (Rec.jDec. 26, 9,5, p.m.).',.', ~- ■:.:, , St. Petersburg, Dccemjber'SCf , ; Tho triSil has commenced at- SIS: Peters--burg of 169 members of tlio. firs t DumaJ on a diargo: of inciting-;the papulation; through tho Viborg manifesto, . taij. disobey and resist; the law, by not paying j taxes and by refusing toifurnish recruits to<ttho~army. The case.is being heard a.-.special Bench .composed of seven; judges of).the Apt peal Court,, and representatives* tho bility, tho j'burgesses, and, tho''peasantry. :

-A little overra weak ago thirty- fbcial,'Democrat members'of tho second Duma-wore', exiled or imprisonpd on a charge ,-pf coiriplicity in a plot against tho Tsar—a charge which was first made justinrior to Hie dissojutionjof the second Duma. The Russian authorities have now extended their prosecutions back to the events immedititely ttye dissolution of the first Duma eazly in , .' 1900." The exVDfejnities then assembled 'at. Viborgi in England., ana issuod a nsmiftesto .signe/i, by., over 200 of their number, "u^girig> up for the trampled rights oT popular repi;esentation, and rilvisjing thran to .give.- neither money nor soldiers dtaumg , the period'• of'tho suspension of the. Dn.ara. .: Loansicontractcd by the. Government, the.?; declared, \would bo' invalid without the consent 6'rttioYpopular-re-, presentatives." ■ ..... ■'.',' :,' ■■■ '