RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 15 April 1908, Page 5

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

"RUSSIA'S HISTORIC MISSION." DOUBLING TBll MANCHUEIAN . LINE. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.} ST. PETERSBURG,. April 14. M. Staljpin^ tbe Premier, uigwi the Duma to- vote as Russia must be strorg in'thef'^ar/E^i^not^^hly-; ic«r fighting Hit iov tho prptectibln of her national, and civilising work^ which -wti* Rufi&ia's Mstoiio ; nii^acm.' It wa.3 impossible to 'double track "tiiel Manchurian line, becauso Chin^'Mld,' the right of' pre-emption, and Ivould. ceirtairJ.y buy. Without th» proposed railway, he acknowledged, itwae'inipoeadble JLjo^^^eJop million! acres <>l com^land^ rich in auriftfroua-we«ltn,:t«aid-^he forests in the Amur aogion^'or present the influx of aliena His fjetiob'was received witl. env thi»siaslio'ctie^rs. (Relayed 'April 15, 8.15 a.m.) . Sft'PtffrEKSßUftG, April 14. Tliej thuniar has ;read, a firsfc time a Bill' grantffii^.6,9QO,()OOraiiblee annu-ally-for nnitersal elemaentary^ .tducaThe iotiurdex of Potocki was th* outodmei oVrawal^ud heto?em. Poles' and j Ruthc«nan€,^ ! / ' ' y '""v j 1 i