RUSSIAN POLITICS
ELECTORAL BILL REJECTED,
PRIME MINISTER RESIGNS,
Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 20. Tho Czar declined to accept M. Stolypin's resignation, which was tendered owing to the Council of the Empire rejecting tho Electoral Bill, which,' by dividing the constituencies according to nationalities, was intended to transfer power from the Poles to tho Russians in the Zemstovs of tho western provinces.
THE NEW PRIME MINISTER ST. PETERSBURG, March 21. (Received March 21, at 11.25 p.m.) The Czar has accepted M. Stolypin's resignation. M. Kokovtsoff (Minister of Finance) succeeds M. Stolypin as Prime Minister.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15098, 22 March 1911, Page 7
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