UNHAPPY RUSSIA.
THE CZAR OPPOSED BY
MINISTERS.
THE CENSORSHIP MORE STRIN-
GENT.
EX-CHIEF OF POLICE SHOT.
United Press Association.—Copyright. Received January 16, §.30 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, January 16. The Council of Mm'sters strongly opposes the Czar's -desire to replace the ■arbitrary Ministerial1 rule by statute law.
The censorship of tie provincial Press thas been increased. The papers were not permitted to publish the Czar's decree cabled on December 27th, but were allowed tic publish the GWemment's circular menacing the Zemstvoa if >bhey exceeded tiheir-powers/;''v,.-' ~ While General TvetpoK-, tite ex-Chief of Police, was escorting the Grand Duke Sergius to fh© Moscow railway station, a student" fired three times with a revolver, hitting Tre-poff one©.
M. Tnetpoff, ex-Chief of Ploldce, had been relieved from has post in order to join General Kuropatkin.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12403, 17 January 1905, Page 5
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