THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.
REFORMS ADVOCATED,
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
ST. PETERSBURG, October 20. (Received October 21, at 8.36 a.m.)
Count Witte, speaking before M. Solsky's Commission of Inquiry, urged the immediate framing of legislature to ensure liberty of the person,' press, conscience, and public meeting, also tlic necessity tluvt the Government should co-operate with the moderate elements of Russian society.
GENERAL STRIKE AT MOSCOW.
SOLDIERS ORDERED TO SHOOT. ST. PETERSBURG, October 21. (Received October 22, at 4.43 p.m.) A general strike has begun at Moscow. The Cossacks dispersed a meeting of the revolutionary party, which was discussing the Duma elections at Minsk, and. 120 people were injured. In view of threatened demonstrations at Odessa, the police havo been ordered to shoot at the crowd at the first command without firing a volley in the air as a warning.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13421, 23 October 1905, Page 5
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