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Show LAI MID IS III BEJPPEASEO Russian Government Makes a Bold Bid to Secure Support of Peasants. MILLIONS OP ACRES WILL BE QUICKLY DISTRIBUTED Peasants Will Have Opportunity to Make Easy Payments on Long Time. ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. 23. An im-porlant im-porlant series of conferences began last night at Peterhof on the question of immediate distribution of tho crown lands and appanages to the peasants, in an attempt to find a partial solution solu-tion of the agrarian question by measurably meas-urably appensing the land hunger of tho peasantry, and the AssociatcaPre3S is now in a positon to announce that the Government has definttelj' decided to proceed with the original "plan outlined out-lined in theso dispatches August 7 for settling the agrarian question, regardless regard-less of Parliament, and to go to tho country upon the issue at the coming cloction. The Associated Press was informed this afternoon by a member of the Cabinet Cab-inet who participated in tho Peterhoi' conferenco that tho agrarian question is no longer open. Within a fortnight an imperial ukaso will bo issued directing the agrnrian commission to begin tho distribution of 1.S00.0U0 desssintiucs (a dessiatinc is about 2. acres) belonging to the appanages, -1,000,000 dcssiatines belonging to the crown, and 2,000,000 dessiatines of land offered 1o or purchased pur-chased through the peasants' bank. Only the torcsts and lands belonging to the state, tho preservation of which is considered necessary for the future agricultural prosperity of the countrv, will be reserved. The transaction will bo financed through the peasants' bank. Little cash will be required. The landlords land-lords and others sellers will be given marketable land script, eventually ro-deemablo ro-deemablo by the peasant purchasers in installment notes designed to meet the interest and amortization. Not Gift From Emperor. The Emperor will not give tho land of the imperial family as a free gift, bul like other landlords, he will accept senpt. Moreover, it is believed that no Parliament will ever dare to repeal this temporary law. Nearly all the present restrictions upon the peasants as a class will also be removed. This in substanco is the Government's bold bid for the support of tho Russian peasant peas-ant millions against the propaganda of the revolutionists. The Associated Press learns by mail that the strictest censorship is now exercised ex-ercised over press dispatches in the Caucasus to conceal tho truo state of affairs, both regarding the truo inwardness inward-ness of the Tartiir-Armcnian warfare and the fermentation among tho Russian Rus-sian troops in the garrisoned towns of Trans-Caucasia. The correspondent nf the Associated Press has not been permitted per-mitted to telegraph many items of news and in other cases tho censor would only accent his dispatches when supported by the official version of tho nffairs they represented. The Armenian - Tartar situation is worse than is known to the outside world. Almost all the Russian military units are disaffected, and then tho Cossacks are rebelling against doing police duty. The latest mutiny is that of tho Poltava Cossacks, who several days ago at Tifiis formally demanded to be relieved from police duty and asked for the discharge of those who had served o cr three years. The entire regiment was disarmed and confined in their barracks under guard. Another version of the Dashlagar affair af-fair m which a number of officers were killed, is to the effect that the sailors of the Black sea fleet, implicated in the Kniaz Potemkinc mutiny who were attached to a disciplinarj' battalion at the village of Kusar on the Caspian sea, near Dashlagar, had been in communication communi-cation with the Saiuur regiment which constituted tho garrison of Saniur. |