RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13316, 19 June 1907, Page 5

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

l;hi;at uproar in the douma. ESCAPE OF DEPUTIES. STRUCK BY A TORPEDO. " Press Assoeiation-By Telegraph-Copyright ST. PETERSBURG, June 17. 31. Purishkeviteh created a great uproar in the Domini on Saturday by declaring thai the Social Democrats ought to be sent to the scaffold. Sixteen of the accused deputies have escaped. While a Russian torpedo boat was discharging a torpedo at Sevastopol. tine struck a cutter in which the Commander-in-Chief was cruising. He narrowly escaped drowning. The officers of the torpddo boat were'arrested on a charge of attempted murder. The next- Douma will consist of 442 members. Class suffrage will be extended to the landlords and' the peasant electorate \,-jl! ihtis b> reduced. The representation *Xf Poland, the Caucasus and Siberia will bs reduced by half.. Direct elections, with a, higher property test will be instituted in the larc-r cities, but such important centres Kazan. [\h-irkof), and Saratoff will be disenfranchised: THE PEOPLE INDIFFERENT. Received 10.24 p.m.. .Tune 18th. ST. PETERSBURG, June 18. R'i.s?i;>- is singularly indifferent over the dissolution of the Douma. -\ REAL CAUSE OF THE DISSOLUTION. EFFECT OF GERMAN INFLUENCE. LONDON, June IS. The Dailv News" declares that the rt:moi;:-,-.l S>. Petersburg plot is fiction, and that, (he real c;utss of the dK'-olufion of the Douma was the fear of offending Germany by making concessions on the language*'question to Poland, for without the Poles' support, which is withheld with a view of bargaining, the Government are unable 1o pass the Budget. Filially German influence, at Court decided M. Stolyl>in not to yield a reasonably reform.'