RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 9001, 25 January 1906, Page 5

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

THE DUMA UNPOPULAR.

VOTERS DISINCLINED TO VOTE.

[PBKSS ASSOqiATtON.I (Received January 24, 11.10 p.m.)

ST. PETERSBURG, January 24.

Voters in all parts of Russia are profoundly disinclined to register their votes for the Duma, owing to the Government preventing an electoral campaign, and to the prevalence of repressive measures.

Thi6 indifference is specially marked at Moscow.

In Odessa, high bureaucratic circles are freely discussing the definite postponement of the Duma. ' . .