Russia.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3700, 2 August 1906, Page 2

Russia.

CABLE NEWS. St. Petersburg, July 30. Thousands of ironworkers have struck at Yusovka as a protest against the dissolution of the Duma. An armed gang seized a printing establishment at St. Petersburg and kept the exits guarded, whilst they printed a hundred and fifty thousand copies of the manifesto issued by the Douma after the Viborg Conference. Four sailors were sentenced to death at Sevastopol, thirty-three to various terras of penal servitude, fifty to imprisonment, and six were acquitted. Owing to the arrest of a prelate in a shed frequented by revolutionaries, the first battalion of the Seoski regiment, at Poltava, paraded the streets, marched to thej

artillery barracks, seized the guns' and tried to liberate political prisoners from the gaol. The garrison suppressed the outbreak with machine guns, killing or wounding a number of the mutineers.

Members of the Douma predict that the taxable Russians will refuse to pay taxes and refuse to serve in the army.

THE SOCIALISTS APPEAL. TO THE ARMY AND NAVY. St. Petersburg, July 30. The Labour and Social Democratic parties in the Domna have made an impassioned appeal to the army and navy. They deHare the C/.ar, ignoring the people’s representatives, sought the advice ot the Grand Dukes, Ministers and landowners, who are opposed by all the peasants, workmen and enlightened classes. They remind the troops and sailors that they are the children of the people, who are demanding land and liberty. The appeal concludes : ‘ ‘ Over any man who shoots at the people there will hang an eternal curse.”