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Show STERN; WORDS FOR CZAR CAME FROM ZEMSTVOS with a solemn reminder of the sovereign's duty to God -and the fatherland, and a prayer for action before it is too late. There is . Intense interest . to learn whether the Emperor will receive " the bearers of co bold a message, couched in terms such as have never before been used between the Emperor and his sub Jects. The address is buttressed with a Stream of petitions from Individual Zemstvos and municipalities. The Doumaa of nearly all the principal cltle have addressed the throne, praying pray-ing thst tbe representatives of the people beaummoned at once. ST. PETERSBURG, June 9. 1:50 a. m. The voice of the delegates Of the Zemst-vos Zemst-vos and of the municipalities demanding in no uncertain tone the Immediate cbn-vocatlon cbn-vocatlon of a National Assembly, to pass upon th Question of peace or war, to. heal Internal strife arid to unite the people peo-ple for the rejuvenation of Russia, will be heard In 'the address adopted by the all-Russian Zemstvo' congress at Moscow, Mos-cow, which a deputation headed by Count Harden and M. Shipoff Is D ringing to present to the Emperor. V The document bids fair to become historical. his-torical. .The customary phrases of respect re-spect at the opening and the closing are omitted, and it is otherwise unceremonious, uncere-monious, employing the direct personal pronoun. The address arraigns the bureaucracy, and reminds the Emperor that his pledge j ' to convoke a National Assembly is slow of fulfillment. It says the country Is On the verge of civil war and even ventures to criticise a royal measure, contrasting the Increase of the police power by the ukase issued last Sunday with a weaken- ing of the administrative process which I the country had been led to expect. The address urges the summoning of a National Assembly that the war may be- , come national or cease, and concludes j ' ' . - . i , ; i . - |