CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.] IF THE DUMA IS DISSOLVED.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 145, 20 June 1906, Page 7

CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.]

IF THE DUMA IS DISSOLVED.

A GENERAL STRIKE THREATENED. OTHER ANTI-SEMITIC OUTBREAKS FEARED. [rRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received June 20, 8.22 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 19th June. The masses and State employees have threatened a general strike if the Duma is dissolved. Fifty people were killed at Staro Sielie, near Bielostok, where the massacre occurred the other day. Other anti-Semitic outbreaks are threatened at Minsk, Vilna, Kovno, and Grodno. GOVERNMENT ABANDONS ITS INTENTION. A WARNING TO THE NATION. ST. PETERSBURG, 19th June. Fearing financial disaster and internal upheaval, the Government has abandoned its intention of dissolving the Duma, but has decided to issue a manifesto warning the nation that under no circumstances will the agrarian proposals of ( the Duma be adopted. At many great meetings in St. Petersburg resolution* were passed supporting tho Duma. A big fall has occurred in all industrial securities on the St. Petersburg Bourse. BARBARIC CRUELTY. (Received June 20, 8.30 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 19th Junel The Duma's commissioners at Bielostok found in a hospital a patient with his eyes driven in by largo nails. . All the Jews in the house from which the first shots were reported to have been fired were collected in a yard and shot and bayoneted. The police superintendent (M. Shiremehiefl), who was chiefly responsible for tlhe massacre, has been transferred and promoted. FEARS IN PARIS. (Received June 20, 8.22 a.m.) PARIS, 19th June, ■ There is a. growing fear in Paris that Russia is marching to a revolution and possibly to a repudiation of her debts. It is stated thati Russia has drained European finances dty.