THE UNREST IN RUSSIA

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIII, Issue 13783, 23 June 1905, Page 5

THE UNREST IN RUSSIA

THE CZAR AND TB.E ZEMSTVOS. United Press Association—By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright. ST PETERSBURG, June 21. The Czar’s allusion to elected representatives, and his desire that they should help in his task, was omitted from the official report of his speech. The Zemstvoists refuse to accept it until the censor restores the true version of the Czar’s speech. This omission from the speech is interpreted to mean that with or without the aid of a sham representative assembly, -the autocracy will bo maintained at all costs. General Trepoff declares that the police authorities must rely on the representative Assembly for support, showing an intention to gerrymander. Policemen are murdered daily in Poland and the western region. The authorities retaliate by hanging men not guilty of any capital crime. GERMAN OPINION OF THE CZAR’S SINCERITY. BERLIN, June 21. German newspapers declare that the Czar’s promises are illusory. SIXTY THOUSAND ON STRIKE.

THE CROWD FIRED ON BY COSSACKS. ST PETERSBURG, June 21. There are sixty thousand strikers at Ivancoznesensk, the Russian Manchester. A crowd of workers in the street wore quietly discussing their needs when a body of Cossacks fired a volley, killing thirty and wounding scores.