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Show ; PROTEST BY MEMBERS OF FINNISH DIET HE143INGFORS, Finland, Dee. 16. A, petition signed by a majority of the I members of the Finnish Diet has been - presented to the Presidents of the four . estates composing the Diet, protesting against numerous edicts and measures, 1 puch as the Introduction of the Russian , language In office, the Finnish functo-rits, functo-rits, the conscription law, etc., which have been enforced contrary to law and without the co-operation of the Diet, ' and which have created a condition of affairs resembling- a state of siege, and urging that the Diet should, at the soonest possible day, bring forward measures for the re-e.tablishment of - legal administration and the restoration ' of legal order. |