THE RUSSIAN REVOLT

Evening Star, Issue 12874, 25 July 1906, Page 6

THE RUSSIAN REVOLT

Press Association—By Telegraphs—Copyright, THE DUMA ANSWERS THE CZAR A PATRIOTIC APPEAL. GIVE NEITHER MEN NOR MONEY. ST. PETERSBURG, July 24. About two-thirds of the members of the Duma have signed a manifesto which will be issued to the Russian people, recounting tho efforts made to secure greater freedom for the nation, the dismissal of the Ministry, which infringed the laws with impunity, and the passage of a law securing land for the working peasantry by absorbing the Crown and Church lands and the compulsory expropriation of private estates. The Government, says the manifesto, holding that such a law was inadmissible, dissolved the Duma, promising to convoke a new Duma seven months hence. This was done though tho country was on the biink of ruin, industry and commerce were being undermined, and the people seething with unrest. Yet, though the Ministry had shown their incapacity to do justice to the popular needs, the Government had proposed for seven months to continue to act arbitrarily and to fight the popular movement in order to obtain a pliable and subservient Duma. Should the Government, however, succeed in suppressing the popular movement, they would not convoke the Duma. The manifesto appeals to the citizens to stand up for the trampled-on rights of popular representation, and for an Imperial Duma,. It then proceeds as follows : —“ Russia must not remain for a day without popular representation, and you possess the means of acquiring it. The Government, without the assent of tho popular representatives, have no right to collect taxes or summon the people for military service, and now that the Government have dissolved the Duma the people are justified in giving neither money nor soldiers. All loans raised by the Government without the consent of the popular representatives should be invalid, the nation never acknowledging the liability; therefore until the popular representatives are summoned do not give a kopek to the Throne or a soldier to the army. Be steadtast in your refusal, and no power can resist the united and inflexible will of the people.” OFFICIAL MASSACRES. A SAVAGE GENERAL. MURDER BASED ON LIES. ST. PETERSBURG, July 24. As a pretext for revenging the death of a drunken Cossack, who was killed at Odessa while attacking Jews, his comrades have commenced sacking the shops, and there is every indication of another massacre, since the authorities are indifferent. General Kaulhars informed the Jews that if another Cossack suffered the streets would run knee-deep in blood. Ho also accused the Jews of inciting all the Terrorists’ acts. THE EXODUS BEGINS. ST- PETERSBURG, July 24. (Received July 25, at 8.44 a.m.) .An exodus of Jews is proceeding at Odessa,, where serious disturbances have occurred. UNHAPPY RUSSIA’S RULERS. LONDON, July 24. Renters St. Petersburg correspondent advises that the Grand Duke Nicholas’s warning of the alarming growth of tho revolutionary propaganda among the army induced the Czar to precipitate the dissolution of tho Duma. ST. PETERSBURG, July 24. session of the Russian Council of the Empire has been suspended until March. Martial law has been proclaimed in the territory of the Don Cossacks. FEELING IN BERLIN. . BERLIN, July 24. Tim dissolution of the Duma aroused surprise in Berlin, hut little unreserved condemnation. THE MONEY MARKET. LONDON, July 24. On the London market the Russian loan declined to 111 per cent, discount, closing at 10/ per cent-. ° A sharp fall in Russian securities took place in Paris, where the Czar is considered to have committed a bad blunder. (Received July 25, at 8.44 a.m.) Russian 4’s are quoted at £67 10s in St. Petersburg. OFFICIAL INSPIRATIONS. LONDON. July 24. (Received July 20, at 8.15 a.m.) Officially inspired telegrams assort that ah is quiet in St. Petersburg and Moscow. THE ARMY TO BE APPROACHED. THE AUTOCRACY AT WORK. ST. PETERSBURG, July 24. (Received July 25, at 8.44 a.m.) . r, ] le Yiborg Conference have ended their sittings. It is expected that a widespread endeavor will b© made to turn the army against the Government. . houses of the members of the Duma m St. Petersburg were searched. BOMB-THROWING IN POLAND. ST. PETERSBURG, July 24. (Received July 25, at 8.44 a.m.) Bombs were thrown at the Singer Sewing Machine Company’s works at Sosnowico and Bender (Poland), many persons being injured at each place.