TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1827, 7 August 1906, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

I’ItESS ASSOCIATION COTYRIGHT St. Petersburg, August 5, The mutiny at Gogane has been quelled. Two hundred sailors were arrested. Ths mutinous sailors at Kronstadt arrested Captain Krinitsky, arraioged him before a hastily summoned tribunal, ineluding civilians and womeD, and sentenced him to death. When facing the firing patty a cry was raised that the Yesisesi regiment were comiDg. Krinitsky bolted. No shots touched him.

Fifty-five thonsand workers are on strike at St. Petersburg, bat the strike of railway employees has not yet commenced.

Troops at Dashlagar on the 30th laid their political demands before their colonel. Refusing to disperse, the offioers fired their revolvers and the troops poured a volley into the officers, killing Bix and wounding four. Another was bayonetted and then hanged, The chaplain was similarly treated,

A magazine explosion at Sveaborg killed fifty mutineers, including many of the Red Guards. The latter were mainly hooligans favoring the establishment of a sooial state. Their leader, Kook, was arrested at Helsingfors. losurgent shells damaged the Sveaborg oburch and made holes in tbe walls and roof of a fortress, while the streets were strewn with fragments of ehelle,

SOCIALISTS GLOAT OVER MURDERS. E 3 ' LJ MESS ASSQCIATJON—COPYRIGHT Reoeived 10.48 p.m, August 6. St. Petersburg, August 6, Polish Socialists at Warsaw, in a proclamation, admit Iffat they were responsible for the reoent train robbery. They also murdered twenty police officers last week.

Negotiations have been commenced at Bt. Petersburg for a new Russo-Japanese treaty of oommeroa and shipping. Odessa is in a state of suppressed panic, owing to reports of mutiny on a vast scale at Sevastopol. Tho telegraph lines have been cut

Newspaper printers have struck ai S’. PetersbU'g. Only three wore published on Saturday,

COLLISION WITH POLICE. PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received 10 45 p.m., Augusi 6. St. Petersburg, August 6. A collision with pnlioe and workmen o.oourred at Bes>rnretsh railway station, Si Petersburg. Right police were killed, The police at Knff discovered bombs, with annotated plana of Aitff and St. Petersburg in the house of ex Lieutenant Ronoveatoff, who was arrested. He was recently dismissed from the army for revolutionary propaganda among soldiers