TROUBLED RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8174, 6 August 1906, Page 2

TROUBLED RUSSIA.

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

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St. Pbtbssdcbo, August 3. Router a agency reports that ths Go-vcmo-General threatens to resign un* less tho strictest state of siege is pro cluimod at Warsaw,

A reactionary newspaper at Moscow published the nuws of Hatzenstein's murder 12 hours before it was perpetrated.

The men at the artillery summer camp at Rembertoff, near Warsaw, have mutinied. Troops were sent to suppress the outbreak. Fearing an approach of mutinous warships the Goyernment are fortifying the mouth of tho Neva. Troops guard all stations on the Finnish railway between Vitorg and St. Petersburg,

The officers at Kronstadt displayed splendid courage, repelling thp muti. neers. BeklczyshefE succumbed to his wounds. Many armed women joined the mutineers.

A GOVERNOR ASSASSINATED. DISMEMBERED BY A BOMB, Received 5, 5.7 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 4. • A bomb decapitated and dismembered the Governor of Samaria, The assassin was arrested.

GENERAL STRIKE BEGUN.

RAILWAY MEN ORDERED TO STRIKE. Received 5, e.jt ST. PETERSBURG, August if. A general strike has begun at St. Petersburg. The majority of the trains and river steamers have stopped, and thousands of factory hands have struck.

The council of workmen's delegates is co-operating with the Revolutionary Committees.

The railway men at St. Petersburg and Moscow have been ordered to strike to-day.

A DISAFFECTED REGIMENT, Received 5, 5.7 p . m . ST. PETERSBURG, August 4. The Moscow Regiment of Guards Quartered at St. Petersburg, are agi'ating their economic and political grievances. They refuse toVisten to their officers' appeals, and Cossacks have been sent to take the disaffecteds to barracEa,

MUTINEERS TRY TO ESCAPE. THE MUTINY ON THE PAMYSTSZOVA. Received 6, t a.m. ST PETERSBURG, August 5. The ringleaders of the Sveabore mutiny tried to escape in three boats, under fire from guns' and maxima in tbe batteries. Many were shot and others leaped overboard. Two of the boats were recaptured. I The mutiny aboard the cruiser jPamysfcszova arose during the night, [the locks were removed from the officers rifles and the electric light was extinguished. When the mutiny joiumenced firing, the officers fought desperately, s i x being killed. The ■Aim's launched a boat and !,ft the , - X