TROUBLED RUSSIA.
A MUTINY SUPPRESSED. THE DUMA'S PREDICTOIN. APPEAL TO THE ARMY AND NAVY. bT. PeTBESBDEO, July 30 Owing to tUe arrest of a prelate in a shod frequented by revolutionaries, the first battalion of the Seoski Raiment at Poltava paraded tho streets and lurched to the artillery barracks, where they seiwd the guns, and tried to liberate the political prisoners in the gaol. The garrison suppressed the outbreak with machine guns, killing and wounding a number of the mutineers,
The members of the Duma predict that taxabh Russians will refuse to "pay their taxes, and will refuse to serve in the army.
The Labour and Social Democratic Parties m the Duma have made an im. passioned appeal to the army and navy. They declare that the Czar, ig. noring the people's representatives, sought advice from the Grand Dukes Ministers, and (landowners, who are' opposed by all the peasants, workmen, aad enlighlened elasses. They re. mind the troops and sailors that they are children of the people whS are delanding land and liberty. Tho appeal adds that over any man who shoots the people will hang an eternal curse, DOUMA MEMBERS TO BE A PROSECUTED. REVOLUTIONARY APPEAL TO THE PEASANTS. Roceived 31,10,25 p.m. St. Petbssbobg, July 31. The authors of the Viborg manifesto are to be prosecuted.
A manifesto, similar to the appeal to the army and navy, has been addressed to thel Russian peasants. It aoou'ses the Government of declaring sauguin. ary war against the nation, urges the confiscation of all State funds and capital, the seizure of land, removal of local authorities pending the election of a constituent assembly based on universal suffrage, and concludes : " Down with the Czar's Government."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8170, 1 August 1906, Page 2
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282TROUBLED RUSSIA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8170, 1 August 1906, Page 2
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