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Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1904, Page 5

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I REFORMS IN RUSSIA. TREATMENT OF ZIONISTS. [press association.] (Received December 5, 8.15 a.m.) " ST. PETERSBURG, 4th Dec. Prince Mirski, the new Russian Minister of ,the Interior, informed a deputation of Russian Zionists that they need not fear persecution. Prince Mirski's policy of reforms seems to be finding a good deal of favour in some quarters. Recently he held a reception of the higher officials of his department, and on that occasion delivered an important address. The London Times says the views which he laid before his subordinates, and which he appealed to them to help him to execute, are those of a school of thought to which many of the best type of Russian noblemen belong. They are distinctively liberal and humane, with not a little of the liberalism and the humanity which were in vogue among&t the enlightened members of the "French noblesse at the close of the eighteenth century. Prince Sviatopolk-Miiski has been Governor of three provinces, and he has shown by the nature of his rule that his devotion to moderate doctrines is not confined to 'empty professions. His wife, who is a highly-cultivated woman, was a correspondent of Count Tolstoy before the opinions of the great reformer had degenerated into extravagance.