TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1826, 6 August 1906, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT St. Petersburg, August 3, _ It baß been ascertained that tbe mutineers riaohing Oonstantine did not reoeive any help from the artillerymen, who were surprised asleep, and defended their own offioern and gons. Thus tbe mutineers wero compelled to meet a fire o' machino guns with rifles, four rounds from tbe big guns securing their surrender, Thereupon seven were courtmartiallcd and shot forthwith for murdering tbeir chiefs. Genera! Markgrafky, chief of the gendarmerie and assistant for police affairs to the Governor-General of Warsaw, was shot dead at bis country reßldenoe. Reuter’s agency reports that the Gover; nor Goneral threatens to res go unless tbe s’rictett state of siege is proclaimed at Warsaw.

A reactionary newspaper at Moscow published news of Harizsnstein’s murder 12 bouts before it waa perpetrated. The men of the artillery at the summer camp at Rembertoff, near Warsaw, mutinied. Troops were sent to suppress the outbreak.

Fearing the approach of the mutinous warships tho Government are fortifying tbo mouth of the Nava. Troops guard all stations on the Finnish railway between Viborg and Bt. Petersburg. Tho offioers at Kronstadt displayed splendid courage in repelling the mutineers. General Beklszysheff succumbed to his wounds. Many armed women have joined the mutineers.

ANOTHER GOVERNOR KILLED

BY BOMB,

A GENERAL STRIKE. PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 5.7 p.m., August 4.

Bt. Petersburg, August 5 A bomb decapitated and dismembered the ’Governor of Samara, The assassin was arrested. A general strike has begun at St. Petersburg. There is no electric light in many quarters. The majority of trams and river steamers have stopped. Thousands of factory hands have struck. The Council of the workmen’s delegates is co operating with the revolutionary Committee

Railway men at St. Petersburg and Moscow have been ordered to strike today. A Moscow regiment of guards quartered at St. Petersburg are agitating economic and political grievances. The disaffected refuse to listen to their officers’ appeals. Cossacks have been sent to the diaifected barrracks.