THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.
SEVERE RIOTING.
MASSACRE OF ARMENIANS.
DISPERSING WORKERS AT MOSCOW.
ST. PETERSBURG, June 6.
A ukase has been issued virtually reestablishing the third section of the Constitution — abrogated by a rescript in March, — which places the lives and liberties, of the whole of the Russian people at Trepofi's mercy. Since Trepoff is both Assistant Minister of the Interior and head of the police, and therefore virtually a, dictator, M. Buliguine, the Minister of the Interior, has resigned.
The police discovered a bomb factory afc Riga. They seized 50 bombs and many revolvers, as well as daggers. A desperate resistance was offered by the arrested men.
The Russian Journalists' Union chartered a fit-earner for a cruise on the Neva.. Then they passed a resolution in favour of the immediate convocation of a constituent assembly. The final resolution hailed the advent of the revolution.
M. Kokovtsoff, Minister of Finance, has threatened to resign because he is unable to raise any more money.
The Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaiviteh proposes a war tax on every Russian subject.
June 7. The Zemstvos Congress defied General TrepofFs prohibition at Moscow, anl unanimously declared that the time had arrived when the nation should decide the question of peace and reconstruct the State.
Thirty thousand strikers at Lodz are practically masters of tlie town.
June 9.
Representatives of the Zemstovs andi 250 Russian towns appointed a deputation to present an address to the Czar protesting against the awful calamity of the disastrous -war, brought about by the criminal abuses and negligence of State councillors, declaring that still more menacing is the prospect of civil war resulting from the vices of a dangerous and ignorant bureaucracy ; appealing to the Czar to let representatives, elected on an equal franchise, without distinction, decide with him the vital question of peace or war. If, then, the terms of peace were rejected the war would become natural, and the world would see that Russia was in no danger of being divided or of exhausting her strength in internecine struggles.
June 10. Severe rioting has taken place at Minsk, Western Russia. Nearly 100 were shot.
A fresh massacre of Armenians has occurred at Eivan, Transcaucasia.
The police at Moscow dispersed 2000 workmen, using their swords. Many were wounded.
June 11.
The Czar's assent to a commission under M. Goromykine (ex-Minister of the Interior) to inquire into the question of land tenure, with a view to improving the condition of the peasants, is announced. A meeting of representatives of the peasants has been summoned for the autumn.
LONDON, June 8.
There are great strikes at Moscow and in the Vladimir provinces. The men are demanding their political rights.
THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.
Otago Witness, Issue 2674, 14 June 1905, Page 28
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