Russia.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3700, 7 August 1906, Page 3

Russia.

St. Petersburg, August 3. A conference of all revolutionary bodies at St. Petersburg decided to favor an immediate general strike. The crew of the cruiser Parayatazova mutinied near Reval and killed the captain and four officers. The cruiser Asia at Abo hoisted the Red Flag and started for Helsingfors. I (/is now apparent the outbreak at Sveaborg was preconcerted. It was intended to attract a large number of troops from St. Petersburg, and thus facilitate a mutiny at Kronstadt, and possibly at St. Petersburg, but the misguided zeal of the Finnish Red Guards, in damaging the railway, impeded the movement of Russian troops, hence the collapse of the revolutionaries’ plans. The only result of their fiasco at Kronstadt will probably be to drive the Government further in the direction of reaction,. It is asserted at St. Petersburg that four mutinous warships from Helsingfors arrived at Kronstadt and that the guns of the fortress were trained on them, but the ships did not fire. The utmost alarm and apprehension is felt at St. Petersburg. The cause of the outbreak at Kronstadt is admittedly entirely a political one. Two companies of sappers and miners have joined the mutineers. They entered their officers’ quarters, killed Colonel Alexandroff of the miners, also the second to command, and captured the other officers. Two thousand five hundred sailors and 400 soldiers at Kronstadt mutinied. A state of war is proclaimed and telegrams are forbidden to be sent. The official statement is that only 2 naval battalions, quartered ashore, revolted. At night, infantry, with quickfirers, dispersed the sailors and populace who were attempting tc break the gates of the arsenal. Wfhe mutineers took refuge in Fort Constante, and the Red Flag was hoisted. . Casualties included four captains killed, and Admiral Bekleraysbheff and two captainwounded. The loyal section of the Pamyatazeva’s crew gained the upper hand, and delivered 150 of the mutineers to the authorities. It has been ascertained that tlm m Ameers, on reaching Constantine, did not receive any help. The artillery men, who were surprise' asleep,' defended their own officers and guns, and thus the mutineers were compelled to meet the fire of the machine guns with rifles, four rounds from the hie guns securing their surrender. Thereupon seven were courtraartialled and shot forthwith for murdering their chiefs. General Markgriky, chief of the Gendarmerie, and assistant for police affairs to the GovernorGeneral of Warsaw, was shot dead at his country residence. Reuter’s agency reports that the Governor-General threatens to resign unless the strictest state of seige is proclaimed at Warsaw, A reactionary newspaper at Moscow published news of M. Hartzenstein’s murder twelve hours before it was perpetrated. London, August 3._ At the International Socialist Congress, A. Henderson, a Commoner, presiding, it was resolved to offer cordial sympathy with Russia’s labour Socialist organisations in’their efforts to rouse the civilians and militaty to resist and o/erthrow the Czar’s and bureaucracy’s cruel tvranny, and to urge the British people to subscribe funds in aid of the movement for freedom. ST. Petersburg, August 3. The men and artillery at the summer camp at Rembertoff, near Warsaw, mutinied. Troops were sent to suppress them. Fearing the approach of the mutinous warships the Government is fortifying the mouth of the Neva. Troops guard all the stations on the Finnish railway between Viborg and St. Petersburg. The officers at Kronstadt displayed splendid courage in repelling the mutineers, Beldezyshcff succumbed to his wounds. Many armed women have mined the mutineers.