RUSSIAN PEASANTRY.
A LAND BILL. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— CopytighH (Received November 7, 9 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 6th November. The Government has submitted to thd Duma a Bill enabling peasants to own, land apart from the communes. Speakers who opposed the Bill conn plained that the measure would onljj create a class of small landowners, without satisfying the demands of the bitfltf of the peasantry. The land is held in common, throughout Great Russia and Siberia. Thetf are 107,943 village communes in European Russia and Poland. Tho land is periodically distributed into allotments and assigned to the several households according to their respective working capacity \
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 112, 7 November 1908, Page 5
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