IMPORTANT CONCESSIONS FOR FINLAND.
A COMPREHENSIVE AMNESTY.
(Received November 6, 0.54 p.m.)
ST. PETERSBURG, November 5.
The Czar has signed a manifesto abolishing the Dictatorship in Finland, and rescinding the illegal enactments in force during M. Bobrikoff's regime; to convoke the Finnish Diet, making the Secretary of State responsible to the Diet instead of being responsible to the Czar.
The amnesty extends to crimes against the Emperor and Imperial family, participators in the strikes, founders of the revolutionary secret societies, and others. Convicts of ten years' standing are to be transformed into colonists in Siberia, other sentences to be reduced by half, and death penalties commuted to fifteen years.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 8918, 6 November 1905, Page 5
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109IMPORTANT CONCESSIONS FOR FINLAND. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 8918, 6 November 1905, Page 5
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