THE UNREST IN RUSSIA

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13890, 26 October 1905, Page 7

THE UNREST IN RUSSIA

THE CZAR’S INTENTIONS. United. Piresa Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 24. The St Petersburg correspondent of the “ Daily Telegraph” states that the Czar has resolved on virtually a constitutional regime, with Count de Witte as the Minister presiding, with large powers. GOVERNMENT CONCESSIONS. ST PETERSBURG, October 25. The Government intends to grant liberty of the Press, right of association and public meeting, and endow tho peasants with State lands. Apparently it is not intended to voluntarily grant a constitntion before the meeting of the Duma, hoping that the concessions will allay the conrtatotional movement without an extension of th© suffrage or endorsement of the legislar tive character of th© Duma, but indication's are the other way. THE STRIKES SPREADING. RIOTS AND DISORDER. (Received October 25, 10.56 a.m.) ST PETERSBURG, October 25. The stoppage of th© Nikolai railway deprives St Petersburg of seventy daily trainloads of provisions. Seven thousand Moscow strikers damaged the St Petersburg railway, also the aqueducts supplying a portion of Moscow with water. Massed and armed workmen are demonstrating at Kharkoff, cavalry dispersing them. Disturbances, accompanied by looting, occurred at Ekaterinoslav. Fresh reform strikes hay©_ thrown idle 36,000 workers at Lodz. A DEMAND FOR UNIVERSAL. SUFFRAGE. LONDON, October 24. A railway men’s deputation to the Russian Government threateningly demanded universal suffrage.