RUSSIA
THE THIRD DUMA.
ST. PETERSBURG, November 12. The Czar has left i^eterhof. He spends the winter at Tsarskoe-Selo.
November 13,
The Solodovnikoff Opera House at Moscow has been burnt owing to carelessness. November 14.
The Duma will meet to-day. It comprises 120 members of the Right, 70 Monarchists, 100 Octobrists, 60 Constitutional Democrats, and 28 members of the Left, while the rest are divided into five small groups.
The Octobrists wish to form a constitu1 tional centre, enabling the Duma to legislate and control the Executive, and restoring the authority of the Government by the union of the monarch and the nation on the basis of the manifesto issued
on October 30, 1905. The leading members of the Right insist that no reforms shall be granted until the country is quiet.
November 15. The Duma opened in the Tauris Palace. There was no public enthusiasm. The Czar sent a message hoping that the Duma would usher in a regenerated order of government. M. Homiakoff, who was elected President, urged a policy of pacification. November 17. The majority of the members at the opening of the Duma sang the National .Antlieiin four times., an-cL -wiMly cheered the Caar. m There are few peasants and many priestly deputies. Most of the deputies are more cultured than the members of the previous Duma.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2801, 20 November 1907, Page 23
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