THE RUSSIAN REVOLT.
Further Conflicts
A Police Station Stormed
(Received Last Xitj/if, at 0.30 p.m.)
St. Petershurg, Yesterday. Cossacks arrested the ringleaders of a disturbance at a Riga factory, but the mob stormed the police station. The Cossacks tired, killing fifty and wounding many. The population in Courland are practically in open revolt, and martial law has been proclaimed there.
The decision to withhold the franchise from the majority of professional men, the pioneers of reform, is being widely criticised.
Many Conservatives, equally with the Liberals, resent the prominence given to the peasants in the Duma scheme.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8226, 23 August 1905, Page 5
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97THE RUSSIAN REVOLT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8226, 23 August 1905, Page 5
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