'We have to thank the Consul-General for Japan for the' following official. telegram: Tokio, 28nd January.
Russian semi.oficial telegrams admit that the strike of workin-u in the arsenals, machine factories, and atler industrial works in Bussia is increasing. Berlin papers think it has more the colour of revolution than a s.rike in the ordinary sense. The strikers petitioned the Czar to the eff-ct that their lot is nothing but slavery oppressed by despotic bureaucracy, they said, consist! bringing disorganization and nious The pooy robbed of the country and burdening it with an ignumi possibility to express their wish in State Mfairs and they would rather die then continue to live under auch conditions. Therefore they request the Czar to help them by granting representation of the people. After reciting these grievances the petition concludes by stating that only two ways jem, namely liberty and
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