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CZAR ENDS DOUMARussian Ruler Peremptorily Dissolves Parliament.NATION NEAR TO WARGreat Empire Now Seems on the Verge of Bloody Revolution.Nicholas Invites Strife hy Surrender to Policy of Grand Dnkei— Members of the Disbanded Douma Flee to Viborg-, Finland, Where Parliament Assembles and Finns Itcbellion—Troops Are Massed at Danger Points and Martial Law Is in Force,Russia’s first experiment in parliamentary government came to an ignominious cud Saturday night with the promulgation of two imperial ukases, the first dissolving the present parliament and providing for the convocation of its successor on March 5, 1007, more than six months hence, and the second proclaiming the capital of Russia and the surrounding province to be in a state of extraordinary securily, which is only infinitesimally different from full martial law. This measure of safety is to provide for the outbursts which undobutedly will be provoked by this daring measure. It is now but a step to dictatorship. A large part of the Province of Kiev, where armed uprisings are expected in consequence of the dissolution of parliament, was placed under martial law.The Emperor has surrendered completely to the grand dukes. For hours Saturday night at Peterhof he conferred with General Trepoff, “the most hated man in Russia,” and the bitterest of the ministers. When the conference ended Nicholas had fully made up his miiul to seize the bull by the horns and plunge the country into bloodshed. All the severities and brutalities which have characterized the rule of the czars In the past will be again brought intoTHE MEMORbplay, it is expected. Thousands of revolutionists will be cast into prison, hundreds of them sent into dungeons and to the mines of Siberia to die, and hundreds of others summarily executed.With two pithy but momentous orders which were promulgated at 3 o'clock Sunday morning Emperor Nicholas by a stroke of the pen set Russia bac kto where she stood two years ago, in the full grip of autocracy and irresponsible government, wiping out for «ix months at least the whole structure of parliament, erected at such cost.There is little doubt, St. Petersburg advices say, that the order for convocation of the new assembly will still further postpone the time, unless -the new parliament promises to be more amenable than the one just dissolved.The delay in fixiug the time for the new elections seems to indicate a de cision to change the present basis ol suffrage to perhaps a basis of universal suffrage, with which the advisers ol the Emperor hope to swamp the educated liberals, the socialists and the workmen with the vast mass of the peasantry.
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Clinton Plaindealer
Clinton, Indiana, US
Fri, Jul 27, 1906
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