THE RUSSIAN SITUATION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8841, 18 June 1907, Page 2

THE RUSSIAN SITUATION.

Press Association—Copyright. St. Petebsbubgi, Jane 1?. The dissolution of the Duma was quietly received in St. Petersburg. _ The city is full s , of troops. Newspaper criticism is prohibited. . • . : Nine of the accused deputies have been g( arrested, and many have been arrested also at Warsaw, The Council of the Empire has been prorogued until November. the Czar’s Manifesto. St. Petkrsbtteq, June 17. £ The Czar ih a manifesto dated yesterday attributes the deadlock partly to the - novelty of a Parliament partly to defects in the electoral law which returns j members not truly representative of the needs and desires of the people; It upholds the manifesto of October 30 and other rights conferred by the fundamental • laws. It considers the Duma ought to bo .Russian in spirit inasmuch as it was summoned to strengthen the Russian State, therefore other Nationalists of tho Empire ought not and shall not be repre- r sented in such numbers as to enable them to be arbiters of purely Russian questions. , It adds that the Czar who is solo giver of tho electoral law and alone able to

abrogate it, substitutes another Senate which lie will forthwith promulgate. It continues —“ Firstly I am resolved to complete the great work of reformation. I look to my faithful subjects for united vigorous service in the direction indicated, for the country whose sons at all times have been,the firm support of its strength, greatness and glory.

Mutiny of Russian Sailors. St. Petersburg, June 17. The sailors on two Russian warships at TendraJ Island plotted to throw their officers overboard and seize the whole squadron under Admiral Tsiwinsky. The officers frustrated their plan and GO arrests have been made. It is understood that street fighting in Sevostopol following the Tendra Island mutiny, hastened the dissolution of the Duma. Another Assassination. St. Petersburg June 17. Colonel Guessekowsky, Deputy Commandant of Sevastopol Harbour, has been assassinated. His murderer has been arrested. The Next Duma. The nest Duma will consist of 443 members. . Glass suffrage will be extended to landlords and tile peasant electorate will thus bo reduced. Tile representation of Poland, the Caucasus aud Siberia will be reduced one half. Direct elections, with a higher property test will be instituted in the larger cities, hut such important centres as Kasan, Khartoff aud Sanatoff will be disfranchised. Sixteen accused deputies have escaped. Trouble in the NavyLondon, Judo 17. The Odessa correspondent of the Daily Express says it is reported at Sevastopol that the Black Sea squadron has been temporarily out of Commission, the gun locks having been removed. Seven hundred seamen and gunners have I been arrested.

The tone of tho English press with regard to the position is somewhat pessimistic.