DISORDERS IN RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8150, 6 July 1906, Page 3

DISORDERS IN RUSSIA.

ONE FOURTH OF ABMY UNTBU3TWOBTHT. THE CBISTS BEACHED. CONSTITUTIONAL GOVEBNMENT OB CIVIL WAB. LOSDOX, July 4. f Two battalbns of tirailleurs and ou railway battalion at Askhabad, in Rowan Turkestan, hare mutinied and defied the Governor-General. They insist oil the dismissal of their officers and the appointment of other officers from the ranki. The " Times'" ft. Petersburg correspondent lays that Russia is on the or# of either frank concession or an ominous reaction. The only alternative if constitutional government or a ooup d'etat. The Cur has been informed that one fourth of the army cannot be trailed. The officers of the Guards regiment threaten t« revolt wholesale. Many troops are parading the Via. dirostock streets singing revolutionary longs. Infantry are posted in the main thoroughfares. THE DISAFFECTED GUABDS. REPORTS ON MASSACBES. THE TROOPS EXONEBATEi). St. PrraasßCEO, July 4. A regular engagement has occurred at Matviaka, in Eastern Russia, between the Cossacks and the peasants. Many of the latter were killed. The Douma has quashed eleven ■lections in the government of Tamboff on the ground of interference with the administration. The Guards' regiment at Krasnol•elo, though vigorously isolated, still manage to hold political meetings daily. Strong guards prevent civilians from approaching the camp. An inquiry, instituted by M. Gorempkin, the Premier, into the Bielostok massacres, has resulted in the exoneration of the officials and troops. The report states that a series of revolutionary attacks and murders of police disorganised the force. Hence resulted a general state of panic favourable to the audacious outrages leading to the outbreak.