Show RUSSIA AROUSED OVER TREASON TRIAL Representative of Accused Members of Duma Makes Startling Starting Ad Admissions n s. s Republican an Special Cable St St. t Petersburg Dec C An G-An An unexpected unexpected peeLed turn was given to tho the proceedings proceed ings Against the tho members of oC the first duma who are arc heln being tried for treason In having Issued the famous Viborg manifesto In Finland after the dissolution dissolution tion ton of ot the tl duna by bv tho the czar At the opening of f the hearing today tho the defense surprised the government go by acknowledging tho the chargo charge that the tho accused men ha had aided and abetted the tho circulation of tho the manifesto Ivan Pot Pot- tho the a aged et deputy who represented represented rep rep- resented T cr In t the e first duma duma in ex explaining cx- cx the attitude of the duma lunia at atthe tho the time the time manifesto was Issued declared do- do dared that tho the congress of p I 1901 an no organization fostered b by the government had hat proposed measures far more revolutionary than anything conI contained con con- l I tamed in the thc Viborg manifesto yet those who took part in the congress were not prosecuted Our motive was not the Instigation of anarchy said time the speaker Wo We e were trying to defend the rights of popular popular popular pop pop- ular representation After j tho dissolution of the first Duma tho the Russian government expect expect- o od an armed armea uprising but wo we counselled the Ule people to use peaceful measures such as the financial boycott and rC refusal a to serve In tho the army These hese means are arc are employed In western west west- cm ern orn Europe for tor the defense of constitutional constitutional const const- rights If It I you open pon the J gates t 8 of tIme the prison on w we will wi enter Joyfully conscious of ot having done our duty M. M declared that tho the establishment es es- of the guilt of or the signers of the tho manifesto would git be a a moral victory vie vic tor tory for lor th government ov and that that the thc the whole notion nation was centering Its Is attention attention aten- aten atten atten- tion on this trial on that account ton |