Unhappy Russia.
COUNT WITTE’S RESIGNATION. St. Petersburg, May 8. Count Witte’s resignation is officially confirmed. M. J. L. Goremykin, a member of the Council of the Empire, will probably be bis successor. London, May 8. The Times" St. Petersburg correspondent states Count Witte insisted on the immediate promulgation of new, immutable, organic laws, designed to leave him with a free hand under the shelter of the autocracy, depriving the Domna of any initiative. The Czar decided that the project was unwist, dangerous and calculated to create strife, and to compromise him in the eyes of the people. He therefore accepted the Count’s resignation.
The Daily Telegraph’s St. Petersburg correspondent asserts i’ a at as the result of Court intrigue, Durnovo has also been dismissed, M. Goremykin, whofr, rmß a Cabinet, is a violent reackk jnar y t th e protege of General and M. Pobiedonostff,
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Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3870, 7 May 1906, Page 4
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145Unhappy Russia. Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3870, 7 May 1906, Page 4
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