Correspondence from Berlin, 29 September. The "Russische Korrespondenz" received the following telegram from Moscow, 28 September, about the meeting at Prince Dolgorukov's:

W. Stead defended the Duma and Trepov. This intervention by an Englishman terribly irritated everyone. Speaking against: Kovalevsky, Nabokov, Mandelstam, de Roberti, Father Petrov. But a storm of enthusiasm was aroused by the words of Rodichev, one of the leaders of the Zemstvo party, when he said: "From hands that have shed Russian blood we cannot expect freedom. We go into the Duma as onto a field of battle — armed for the fight."

Ibid., 29 September, 4th morning edition.

"As the 'Russische Korrespondenz' is informed from Moscow, a meeting of the 'Union of Liberation' adopted a resolution stating that members of the Union cannot be recommended to abstain from participation in the elections to the State Duma. Although the latter does not correspond to the clearly expressed demands of the people, the friends of the people and of freedom could nevertheless enter the Duma 'not to take part in its current affairs, but exclusively for the purpose of fighting for the introduction of genuine freedoms and constitutional institutions on a democratic basis in Russia, without allowing themselves to be hindered in their decisions even by the prospect of a complete break with the existing governmental authority.'"