THE RUSSIAN REVOLT.
A QUEER SORT OF FREEDOM. STATE MONOPOLY IN CONVERTS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ST.- PETERSBURG, June 5. M. Maksinovitch declares that the religious tolerance ukase is misunderstood. The Orthodox Greek Church remains the State religion, and is alone permitted to make converts. OMINOUS SIGNS. LEAVING THE CITY. • ST. PETERSBURG, June 5. (Received June 6, at 9.5 a.m.) The exodus of wealthy people from tho city recalls the emigration of the nobility at the outbreak of the French Revolution. ANGER OF THE PEOPLE. ' RIOT AT A CONCERT. A COLONEL AND A MAYOR PARTI- ' CIPATE. . ST. PETERSBURG, June 5. Five thousand people attended a concert near Tsarskoe-Selo, and clamored for the funeral march, in memory of the dead at Tsu-shinw. The musicians became alarmed, and fled. M. Novikoff, formerly Mayor of Baku, exclaimed: " Let us, by rising, show our respect to the victims" Down with the' war!" On the police trying to seize M. Novikoff, a colonel with a drawn sword led the public assault against the police., Almost immediately 250 police, with drawn swords, entered, and a terrible stampede followed. Many were injured. M. Novikoff was arrested. *
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Evening Star, Issue 12523, 6 June 1905, Page 6
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188THE RUSSIAN REVOLT. Evening Star, Issue 12523, 6 June 1905, Page 6
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