. The Russian road to China . ldiers with fixedbayonets were at the Duma doors. Hurried con-sultations were held with groups of colleagues, andfinally the word was passed to meet at Viborg inFinland. At the little inn there, the pressing crowdof one hundred and sixty-nine fugitive deputiessigned their manifesto. It called for the cessationof tax-payments, the refusal of conscription, andreclaimed the freedom of Russia. But the insur-rection, the uprising in their support! Not a regi-ment came to assist them, not a city rallied to theircall, not a Mir responded. For a few weeks thesigners were
. The Russian road to China . ldiers with fixedbayonets were at the Duma doors. Hurried con-sultations were held with groups of colleagues, andfinally the word was passed to meet at Viborg inFinland. At the little inn there, the pressing crowdof one hundred and sixty-nine fugitive deputiessigned their manifesto. It called for the cessationof tax-payments, the refusal of conscription, andreclaimed the freedom of Russia. But the insur-rection, the uprising in their support! Not a regi-ment came to assist them, not a city rallied to theircall, not a Mir responded. For a few weeks thesigners were free. Then the police took them, oneby one. Dully unprotesting, the public received the newsof the dissolution of the Duma and the arrest ofthe deputies. The majority of Russians did notwant disunion, did not want the overthrow of vestedrights. Each wanted some specialty of his here was the resultant of each constituencyscrystallized desires. The people had accepted theleadership of those who had held out great THE TVERSKAIA GATE JWWi!!i5fi
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