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Show TO TELL PEOPLE OP NEW REGIME Town Council of St. Petersburg Will Give "Public Lectures. ST. PETERSBURG. Jfov. lO.-The Town Council of St. Petersburg is taking the lead in the political education agitation agita-tion of the masses by Inaugurating a series of public lectures at which the new order of things Is explained to the people. The object of the meeting is to allay the hostility between the various classes by showing the benefit accruing to all from the grant of liberties. This example will be followed by Moscow and other cltlee. Word reaches Count Witte that in some regions the reactionaries who are seeking to make the new regime odious are spreading reports among the peasants In the country and the lower classes of the cities that the Imperial manifesto is a for- ?;ery Issued by a camarilla of revolutionise, revolution-ise, of which Count Witte Is the head and who hold the Emperor prisoner in the enlace. Such stories circulated among the Ignorant Igno-rant peasantry are apt to prove almost as dangerous now as they did when the peasantry peas-antry rose to support Pugaticheff, who, claiming to be Peter III., called on the people to overthrow Catherine II. |