The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-04-12

first Manchurian army. Gen. Kuropatkin
says that the causes of defeat were lack
of preparation and initiative, attributable
to the oppression of bureaucratic rule
during the last fifty years.
Maxim Gorky, the Russian novelist and
poet, in a letter published in Wilshire's
Magazine, says that the electoral law es-
tablishing the douma was a farce, and
hat the people refused to register al
most without exception, because neither
freedom Of speech or of the assembly
was allowed.
The japanese government is having a
battle ship constructed at Kure, the most
striking innovation of which is two tall
masts fitted with topsails and topgallant-
sails. She will lave an overhanging
schooner bow, with no ram. This is ex-
pected to keep her comparatively dry for
ward in heavy seas.
BY a majority Of 238 votes, the British
House of Commons has declared in favor
of salaries of $500 a year each for its
members. This vote does not mean legis-
lative action, but indicates a change of
sentiment. The idea is to smooth the
way into public life for working men and
others of moderate means.
Jacob Morengo, the last and most pow
erful of the native rebel leaders of Ger
man Southwest Africa, has succeeded in
eluding a big German expedition with
field and machine guns. Speaking of this
in the German Reichstag, former Com
mander Deimling of the African colony
said it was a mistake to regard Morengo
as a savage, as he was an intelligent
farmer, who wears English riding clothes
and speaks good Dutch.
The widespread circulation of procla-
nations throughout Russia calling for the
determination of the Jews, has been the
subject of investigation by Premier White,
who found that it was printed in the
printing Office of the police department.
The organization known as league of the
Russian people, in which Gen. Trepoff and
other reactionaries are prominent, has
been arming the ''black hundreds" COM
posed of the thugs and criminals, in an
ticipation of the clash a. Easter time.
Following a series of special councils
at Tsarkoe-Selo, over which Gar Mich
olas. presided I'm person, the main guar
antees of liberty proposed by the Gar
were duly affirmed. Hereafter no law
will be effective without the approval of
the national assembly and council and the
empire. The council will consist of an
equal number of appointed and elected
members, taken from the clergy, nobility,
| zemstvos, academy af science, universe
| ties, trades and industries. Both houses
| will have power to initiate legislation
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| nual sessions will be convoked and closed
| by imperial decree. The sessions will be
public. Seeing that the national assembly
is to be an accomplished fact, the Social
| Democrats have voted to raise the boycott
and to take part in the elections
Whatever hope there was of seeing a
representative form of government set up
in Russia under the direction of Premier
White has disappeared in the present
reign of terror directed by Minister of the
Interior Durnovo, who is now all power
full with the Gar. Arrests of persons
belonging to the intellectual class have
increased daily, until the jails are crowd
ed. In anticipation of popular reprisals,
troops and guns are being distributed to
various points of danger. In Moscow
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| prisoned for political reasons. A general
railway strike is again threatened, and
military trains are held in readiness,
while all stations are under strong mill
tary guard. Everywhere there are signs
of deepening popular unrest, and in sheer
desperation the masses are likely to re-
spond to a new revolutionary call.
The French ministerial crisis was tided
over by the selection of M. Sarrien as
Rouvier's successor. As Premier Sarrien
has undertaken to conciliate the Radicals
and Socialists by obtaining the co-opera-
ton of Bourgeois as minister of foreign
affairs, the continuance of Rouvier's Mo
roccan policy was assured. Sarrien him
self becomes minister of the interior. The
Socialists are propitiated by the assign
ment of NJ. BRAND, one of their number,
as minister of public instruction. When
the new premier announced his policy
of executing the church and State law, of
maintaining the position as to Morocco.
and upholding the Franco-Russian ALI
ance, the chamber gave him a vote of con-
fidence, 300 to 1917. The real power in
the new ministry is understood to be NJ.
Clemenceau, whose reputation suffered
formerly in connection with the Panama
scandal.
Because the death sentence against
twelve natives of Natal, South Africa
charged with numbering troops in ambush,
had been suspended by Sir Henry Mccall
lum. governor of the colony, with the
approval of the Earl of Elgin, secretary
of state for the colonies, the cabinet of
Natal resigned. and public excitement
spread throughout the colonial population
of South Africa. The people regarded
his act as undue interference with local
affairs. The matter was under discussion
in the British parliament Thursday, the
colonial Office being questioned as to its
policy. Each party charged the other
with invoking the spirit which lost the
American colonies. 1t appeared that the
condemned natives were undoubtedly gull
ty as charged, but that their trial was
by military court-martial, and therefore
technically illegal. Later Earl Elgin re-
cedcd and the prisoners were shot.
A general strike has been proclaimed in
the northern mining districts of France
following the excitement over the acct
dental death of 100 miners by an explo-
sion of firedamp at Courrieres. The i'm
mediate object of the strike was to enforce
a demand for better wages. More than
$4,000 workmen were affected. Serious
riots were reported in PROCESS and troops
had been called to maintain order.
1t was reported unoficially that the
Porte had decided to refund the customs
duties paid under protest on c~onsign-
ments of educational materials destined
for the American schools at Beirut.
Nicholas Tchaykovsky, a ~well-known
leader of Russian revolutionary eAiles, has
arrived at New York to head a movement
of Russian intellectuals in securing arms
and war munitions for what he regards
as the inevitable conflict. He says that
the uprising is coming sooner than they
wish, because the peasants have reached
the limit of endurance and have decided
to take possession of public lands and
estates in the spring.
The visit of King Edward of England
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