Russian Reforms

Hastings Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 4785, 30 December 1904, Page 4

Russian Reforms

(Per United Fress Assb —Copyright) Received December 29, at 11.23 ,p.m. London, December 29. The Decembrist speakers included the'director of the newspaper "Russ" andi hree Socialists. The Zemstvos Conference at Moscow adjoiurned indefinitely, .declaring that the Government's communique prevented calm discussion. A; meeting of workmen in Baku, jprc sidqd over by the Mayor, passed a resolution condemning ithe war a senseless 'and' runious and expressing the opinion that only free representatives of the people, elected by ser ret ballot, with equal rights, would be able 1o extricate Russia, and add ing, "Our mottoets are "Peace" and "Freedom.' " Advices from Lodz, show that the great iron railway bcidge at Pabianice was undermined in order to prevent the fra."-"'/rt of reserves. A mine exploded. ■- -'""-hf damage. Another was onnnrtun-elv discovered : also pxnlosi- The entire r*v- «-nardeA Spven shots killed the eMef of po' ■ice wh'le hp was walking in, the main street of fWiuscha, in fho Caucasus.