RUSSIAN INTERNAL AFFAIRS
|BI ELECTaiC TKLMJUAPH —CUl'lUUiili [PEB PEEBB ASSOCIATION.] RUSSIAN PEOPLE'S DEMAND. ST. PETERSBURG, May 16. Though respectfully drafted the Douma's address in reply to the Czar's speech is practically an ultimatum to the Czar, and contrasts his promises made on October 13th with his subsequent repression. It insists on universal suffrage; Ministerial responsibility to the representatives of the nation as the only means of impressing the demands of the country on the Monarch; not answerable for the abolition of the Council of Ministers in fheir present form ; proposes to devote to the peasants of acute needs the lands belonging to the State, Crown. and Monasteries' appanages; compulsory appropriation of private lands, and waits tho full amnesty as a pledge of the Czar's and people's mutual agreement.
■Hfce Council of the Empire is overwhelmingly against full amnesty and tho hopes of a peaceful solution are dimmed.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 May 1906, Page 3
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