THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13424, 26 October 1905, Page 7

THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

A CONSTITUTIONAL REGIME. DAMAGE BY STRIKERS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 24. (Received October 25, at 7.20 a.m.) Dr Dillon, the Daily Telegraph's St. Petersburg correspondent, states that the Czar has resolved on a virtually constitutional regime. Count de Witte will be the Minister presiding, and be endowed with large powers. •

REFORMS TO BE GRANTED. ST. PETERSBURG, October 25. (Received October 25, at 10.3 p.m.)

The Government intends to grant the liberty of the press, the right of association in public meeting, and to endow the peasants with State lands. Apparently it is not intended to voluntarily grant- a constitution before the meeting of the Duma, the Government hoping that the concessions to bo made will nllav tbe constitutional movement without the extension of the suffrage or the endorsement of the legislative character of the Duma, but present indications point the other way.

;ffects of the railway strike.

WIDESPREAD DISTURBANCES. ST. PETERSBURG, October 25. (Received October 25. at 10.50 p.m.) The stoppage of work on the Nikolai railway deprives St. Petersburg of 70 train loads of provisions daily. Seven thousand of the Moscow strikers damaged the St. Petersburg railway ami also the aqueducts supplying portion of Moscow by water. Massed and armed workmen wore demonstrating at Kharkoff, when the cavalry dispersed them. Disturbances accompanied by looting occurred at Ekaterinoslav. Tlie fresh reform strikes have thrown idle 36,000 workers at Lodz and Pabianiea, Russian Poland. The St. Petersburg railway men's deputation to the Russian Government tbreatingly demanded universal suffrage.