Russian Unrest.
FURTHER TROUBLE. L jndon, May 9. Private advices from St. Petersburg state that disturbances lasting over three days occurred at Zhitomir (in the government of Volhynia), where there was a massacre of Jews on a scale recalling the outrages at Kishineffin 1903. St. Petersburg, May S. The police discovered two large bombs in a workman’s house at Lodz in Poland. They arrested the workman, his wife, and four men. r.ll were armed with revolvers. Colonel Stngen, head of the Recruiting Department at Moscow, and several subordinates have been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment for connivingat reservists ©scaping service. The Zemstvo Congress at Moscow, by 127 votes to 8, adopted a resolution demanding secret universal suffrage. DISSENSION AT THE CONGRKSS. St. Petersburg, May 9. The Zemstvo Congress, by 107 Totes to 29, recommended the establishment of two legislative chambers. The National Progressive party, mnder M. Ship ft’, was outvoted throughout the proceedings. MM. Shipoff and Stakhovich, supporters of the Autocracy, have withdrawn from the Zemstvos Congress.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3520, 11 May 1905, Page 3
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168Russian Unrest. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3520, 11 May 1905, Page 3
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