INTERNAL RUSSIA

Waikato Argus, Volume XIX, Issue 3029, 10 November 1905, Page 2

INTERNAL RUSSIA

CABLEGRAMS

[UNITED PEERS ASSOCIATION] I BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT]

!St. Petersburg, November 8 A doctor at; Kieff, in a loiter to an acquaintance at iSt. Petersburg, desenhos fho terrible atato of affairs during the past few days. In all, be says, the number of killed and wounded Jews in that .South town cannot be less than

In the course of a description of the horrors of the massacres he says that, fully one thousand women and dren were outraged and afterwa k\ strangled.

He declares bis settled conviction that the Government and a certain Grand Duke, whom he does not name, calmly organised the whole massacre.

London, November S Advices from St. Petersburg represent that a considerable change has been made in the disposition of the Government by the increasing assertion of the power of the people in the revolutionary movement. It is stated on the best authority that the Ministers in St. Petersburg have elaborated an important extension of the franchise in regard to the elections for the National Duma. A considerable reduction has been made in property and rental Qualifications, while the working classes will be accorded recognition so far as to allow their returning representatives at su average rate of one to every quarter of a million of the constituents. The new concessions also extend the suffrage to the holders of high school diplomas. It has been finally decided that the Duma shall consist in all of 500 membors.

Petersburg correspondent of Ihe Times states that Count da \\itte, in his role of Premier under the new constitution, has made some alterations in his Cabinet. The Ministry of the Interior will fall to Prince Urasoff, who is wellknown for his liberal tendencies. Ihe portfolio of Finance goes to M.M. J, Shipoff, who is a younger brother of the M. ShipofF, who formed the Zemstvo Conference, and was its leader.

The Ministry of Education will be taken by M. Eugene Troubestkoi, a professor in Kieff University, and brother of the ex-Rector of the University of Moscow. M. Shipoff will take tho Ministry of Agriculture.

In announcing these appointments The Times remarks that the selection is excellent, but that measures, and not men, are required. M. de Witte’s catchwords, “The unity and greatness of Russia,” may temporarily rally the ignorant, but those who won the present concessions, namely Constitutionalists and the Socialists, will remain aloof, and are bound sooner or later to enlist the support of tho peasants and workers. “It is this apprehension,” says the same correspondent, “ that prevents the Government yielding on the mam question of universal suffrage and a constituent assembly. Odessa, November 9,

Seventeen hours’ fighting has taken place at Nasakoirali, near Batoun. Armed rioters, chiefly with bombs, killed 105 out of 120 Cossacks, who previously had burned the villages in the neighbourhood. The mob attacked the Jews at Tomsk, and 600 perished. The Governors of Lodz and Warsaw have prohibited political meetings.

The Grand Duke Vladimir’s resignation of the commandsrabip of the guard and military district of St. Petersburg has been accepted, likewise that of Prince Khilkoff.