THE RUSSIAN SITUATION
Count Witte's Offer ] Provisional Suspension of Repressive Measures Tlie Times'** St 'Petersburg .correspondent reports tihat the .Government has privately informed the labor chieis that if the 22nd. inst passes qmetls repressive measures will be suspended the following dlay. Count Witte informed a deputation that the Douma would probably assemble on ;April 24th, and stated thau the Council of the Empire would • o composed of 176 members, half to bo 6lected— 34 by the Zemstvos. 18 by ths nobles, 12 teach by tihe merchants and by the manufacturers, and 6 each by the Caucasus and by Poland. Count Witte stated that Durnovo .was responsible for the existing repressive measures. Personally he was opposed to repression ; but "was compelled to relsort thereto as the result of trusting to his countrymen.
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Grey River Argus, 12 January 1906, Page 3
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