Russian Revolution.
(By Electric Telegraph-Copyright). (Per Press Association.) -"• ST. PETERSBURG/August 22. The orthodox Russo-Greek Church authorities here are organising a mission to visit the Islands of the Australasian "Archipelago. Cossacks arrested the ringleaders in the disturbance at the Riga factory. " The mob storming the police station, the Cossacks fired, killing 50 and wounding many. . \ The population of Courlaiid is practically in open revolt, and martial law is now established there.
The decision to withhold the franchise of the majority of the professional men, the pioneers of reform, is widely criticised.
Many Conservatives,- equally with the Liberals, resent the prominence given to peasants in the Duma scheme.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8071, 23 August 1905, Page 5
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106Russian Revolution. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8071, 23 August 1905, Page 5
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