A Paris dispatch today goes
the length of stating that such a proclamation is shortly to be issued.
From inquiries made in authoritative quarters THE NEW YORK TIMES is able
to state that, while there is no official authority for such a
prediction, there is good reason to believe that some measure of reform
along the lines indicated is likely. Both in France and England,
Russia's reactionary policy is the only element which has aroused any
misgivings regarding what it is hoped in the two first-named countries
will be the results of the war.
The enthusiasm aroused in France by the decree affecting Poland gives
the measure of relief caused by the removal of these misgivings, so far
as one section of the non-orthodox subjects of the Czar are concerned.
Equal relief would be felt among a large and representative body of the
British public were definite action taken by the Russian Government to
remove the disabilities under which the Jews in Russia labor. I have
authority for stating that steps have been taken to bring this point of
view to the attention of the Russian Government.
Officially, the British Government can take no action which could be
regarded as an interference with the domestic affairs of a friendly
power, and certain overzealous representations which have been made to
Sir Edward Grey overshoot the mark.
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