The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-07-26
WILL DISSOLVE
RUSSIAN DONNA
GOVERNMENT CLAIMS THAT PAR.
LAMENT is EXCEEDING PRE-
RoGATIvES.
MAY PROCLAIM DICTATORSHIP
THE DEVASTATION WROUGHT BY
PEASANTS IN PROVINCES is
APPALLING

OlOgne, July 2l.-IhG GdZGlte 5 COR
respondent at St. Petersburg asserts
as on reliable authority that the Rus
sian government has agreed IL princl-
pie TO dissolve parli2"rent ara order
new elections on the o&s's Of univer-
sal and direct suffrage.
The reason given is that parliament
is exceeding its prerogatives.
The correspondent adds that if there
should be an outbreak OF a revolution
airy movement the government has de-
cided 10 establish a dictatorship.
Dictatorship Discussed.
London, July 2l.-ThC Times st. Pc
tersburg correspondent says that the
temper Of the court and government
is markedly reactiOnary and that the
dismissal of parliament and The
declaration of a dictatorship are being
seriously discussed.
Address Is Adopted.
St. Petersburg, July 21.-An address
TO the country, setting forth the atti-
tude Of parliament on the agrarian
question and tbs reasons for the delay
in the adoption OF a solution, was
adopted by the lower house, but il an
emasculated form.
Changes designed to minimize the
revolutionary features of the document
as an appeal to the people against the
government and TO shift the emphasis
to a note OF p%acfication, in which the
peasantry are eXhorted to refrain from
excuses and violence and 10 await
parliament'S decision in the matter.
were incorporated.
Losses Are Colossal.
A landlord fleeing from Bobrov, in
the province of VorOnezh, has arrived
at Moscow and gives a ~frightful pic
ture of the devastation wrought by
mad bands of peasants. He describes
the losses in the provinces as colossal.
The troops are pOwerleSs { cope with
the peasants, who are marching in
large bands, destroying practically
everything. Not more than one-tenth
OF the estates are spared.
Trust Cossacks Only.
Gov. Gen. kaulbars of Odessa has
been overwhelmed recently with APP
peals for military assistance from land
owners in the districts Of Kherson,
Ye~katerinoslav and Poltava against
the ~peasantry, who are organized and
led by revolutionists.
Cossacks only are furnished for
such duties, as the loyalty of the reg
ular cavalry and infantry is not to be
depended upon.
The peasant war, which began in the
province of Voronezh, is spreading
over the central provinces. Fifty
houses in the province of Voronezh
have been burned by peasants since
Sunday. A moi of striking laborers a
week ago was brutally attacked by the
government forces. Enormous masses
of ~peasantry then congregated and
marched in a great column several
miles in length to sack all the estates
in the neishborhood.
Hundreds Are Killed.
The troops arrived and tried to dis.
perse the mob with volleys of mus.
kerry. Many hundreds of the peasants
were killed and wounded, but the
horde stubbornly refused to retreat.
The approach of masses of peasants
by other roads made the position of the
troops u~ntenable and they retreated
leaving the estates defenseless. The
government has sent artillery to the
scene.
The railway stations are packed
with refugees and landlords and theil
families are camping by the roadsides
Dragons Kill Eighty Peasants.
Companies of the Ismalovsky regi
ment of the Imperial guards have beer
placed at the railway stations between
st. Petersburg and Moscow to protec
them.
Private kilograms say dragons kill
ed eighty peasants in the village o
Tamboff, while 5000 people were hold
ing a peaceful meeting and DISCUSSING
the land question.
Mounted police and dragons, afte
firing several volleys into the CROWD
charged it with drawn swords. An off
cial dispatch says n person has beel
killed and one w5unded in rioting a
liver.