THE RUSSIAN INTERNAL AFFAIRS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 August 1905, Page 4

THE RUSSIAN INTERNAL AFFAIRS.

[l’,Y ELECTRIC! TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.]

[per press association.]

ST. PETERSBURG, August 24,

There are 5000 Duma voters in St. Petersburg, 12,000 in Moscow, and 7000 in Odessa, with renla] qualifications. Indignation at Odessa is intense because with half a million inhabitants they are allowed only one deputy, the same as Kiersk, with 50,000 inhahit-

ants. The organisation of an electoral campaign is everywhere forbidden. The Governors are imprisoning ami exiling many leading Liberal voters. 'J'he officials announce they are entrust efl with elec!oral arrangements, ami Zenith o:, am.l municipalities are not allowed, to ro-nperale. 'He ro are "rave disturbances in various parts of C'oiirland, aim incendiarism, pillage and murders. The Czar’s portraits were destroyed. Public buildings and farmers’ houses were tired. RE FOX’ .A 1E U S AIIRESTED. PARTS, August 24.—Advices from Moscow state that; 21 officers who met to discuss the Duma scheme have been arrested. ST. PETERSBURG, August; 24. Four employers at Warsaw were murdered in the street in one night. Colonel Meyer, the chief of police, does not shoot revolutionists like his predecessor, but arrests hundreds nightly. All the prisons and several barracks are filled with prisoners. The sufferings are unfold through hard ships of overcrowding, hunger and brutal I.real incut.