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Gar TAKES HIS STAND
Troops Are Being. Massea ID at Great
Observation-Disclosures Are Also
Prepared For Emergency. -.

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8. ST. Petersburg, By cable:s-Ah
imperial ukase has been .promilgats
ed dissolving parliament and fixing
the time for. the etonvocat{on Of the
newly elected assembly as March S,
1907. 4
A second ukase places st, Peters.
burg in-a a state Of, Extraordinary se-
curity by the declaration Of a minor; n
1orm .of. martial law. -. ..y ...-.
A large part of the province. Of
.Kiev, where armed iiprisings .are an
ticipated In consequence f<the disso=
LUTON Of parliament. has been plae:
ed under martial law. The conditions
for the new elections will be publish
ed later. +.
i The eia,pssQr, .55dii|sseauragaa by Ills
failure 10 : form . { coalition ministry.
and. the distinctly revolutionary paths
which parliament has chosen, has ap-
parently been persuaded 10 risk d
f lanal appeal |, from patjllalpsat i! z to the
people, or in other words, to dissolve
paliameht. aud. order new elections
on the basis Of universal suffrage.
Thursday the imperial. ukase caus-
ing. the. dissolution of parliameht was
signed, and Yas enforced Friday at a
final, tnomantous conference on the
subject held al ;, P,eterhof. !, Exactly
who was present cahhet .bt learned,
but. it is understood that the grand
tiukes, Cen Frepof and other officials
and one or two ministers wei:e at the
palace. .>..s-4z.-:-s -.
Evidently the government is not
bind te-the fact that .thes7lsssoilitlon
s paraieasnt M E geessmpanied by
Tremendous excitement, riots and
bloodshed. if nothing worse. Troops
are being massed at ST. Petersburg,
Moscow and other centres, prepared
to apply physical force and in addi-
ton TO the, guard regiments, which
o. = a., =
were hurriedly marched into the capi:
tai Thursday night, the entire Twen-
ty-third division Of infantry arrived
here Saturday from Pskov. This
imposing military array is expected
to 'overawe the masses: f'he Social
lists and the Group Of Toll in parlia-s
saent hayes prepared for an emergen-
y. They z " drafted M @ Can Can address fcs is
suance to the country the moment the
dissolution was declare e;,l.-.-4..:.-s.,!!3;es.9G
Blocdshed on a large scale withfa 4.
dictat t6rslip iii theEbaekground is con-
sidered tosbs the Inevitable sequel Of
the dissolution of parliament, but the
supporters Of dissolution claim that
thsaenperorE must fake tie risk. ar.
gufhaig III Shat aewS electonsssmay give
different results and, i'll any event,
that it's better 70 fight than TO alb.
jaed i surrender 10 :theaLeyolutionarS
parliament.
s:ME slerm,lefr, former minister of
agriculture and leader of the Con-
scvatiee; Ccntrists in The: lower house,
who several weeks ago vainly tried
to form a coalition ministry, in con-.
versatiof swithv vthe.: correspondent: of
the Associated Press declared that the
was extremely critical. He
was without hope that conAict.could.
be avoided: ;.!i.z.l5 ,.i
he .saids "ll,a! it is impossible for
a,y smaa to predict the course of!fu-
tire events, but I feel safe in predict
ING: two things: first, That Russis
will conc to a constitutional basis;
second, tLat there will be. no great
revolutionary cataclyc:slu i'll the sense
that foreigners anticipated