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Show NO AID FOR THE JEWS. Russia's Big Problem Not Likely to Be Settled Soon. St. Poteiybuav-iWIth tho advent of thu third dunia, tho settlement of tho Jowlsh problem enters upon n period pe-riod of further indefinite delay. Immediate Im-mediate measures of rollof foYm no part of tho progrnmmo ot tho Octo-berlsts, Octo-berlsts, and tho views of many conservatives con-servatives nro frankly nntl-Semltlc. President Kiiomynkoff in nn interview inter-view said that this question could scarcely bo considered by tho duma before 1909. Personally, ho said, ho favored tho abolition of a number of restrictions of tho civil rlghtis of tho Hebrews, notably tho hording of Jews within tho pale, which Is foolish and needless, under present conditions. But tho Jowlsh question, ho continued, contin-ued, has no direct connection with tlvo Hus8lnn peoplo, and ho asserted that it is of secondary lmportanco to tho great problem affecting tho basic principles ot tho present government and must glvo way to them. |