THE RUSSIAN SITUATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8175, 7 August 1906, Page 3

THE RUSSIAN SITUATION.

Till- MILITARY MUTINIES. IX OFFICER'S FROVIDIiXTIAI-i KI'APR St PEinßsiirKG, August o.

The troops at Pashlagar on the 3nth aid their political demands before the .olonel, and refusal to disperse, an 'lfiecr li.-ed a revolver. Tiie troops hen poured a volley into the olliecrs, tilling six and wounding four. Another was bayonetted and then hanged, iiid the chaplain was similarly treated. A magazine explosion at Sveaborg iilled fifty mutineers, including many if the Red Guards. The latter were ttainly "Inoligaiis," favoring the e<a'jlishment of a social democratic itate Their leader Ivock was arrested it Helsingfors.

Insurge-nt shells damped the Sveajjrg Church. There are holes in (he walls and roof of the fortress, while .iie streets are strewn with fragments )f shells.

The mutin/ at Gog.iue has been pielled. Two hundred sailors were arrested.

llutinous sailors at Kronstadt arrested Captain Krinitsky, arraigned hill betore a hastily-summoned tribunil, including civilians and women, and sentenced him to death. When he was facing' the tiring party a cry was raised, "The Venesei Regiment is coming!" Krinitsky bolted, and none of the shots touched him.

Fifty-fire thousand workers are on strike in St. Petersburg, but the strike of the railway employees has not commenced vet.

- SOCIALISES OUMAGES. SHIPPING AT ODESSA PANICSTh'ICIvEN. REPORTED MUTINY" AT SEBASTOPOL. piiixiEiis oi T r on stkikk. I'eceivcd ti, 10. IS p.m. Si. PETEJSisrB'i, August ti

Polish Socialists at Warsaw, in a proclamation, admit they were respon-

sible for the ree.-nt train robbery, end alsj murdered 20 police otlicers last week. Negotiations have been commenced at Si. Petersburg for a new Kasso-lap-me>e Treaty. Cjmnicrec and shipping at Odessa is ill a >ta'e of suppressed panic, owoig ti reports of liminy on a vast scale at Sevastopol. Tne telegraphs have been .•ut. Newspapers' printers have Mm--!, a! S . l'eier-burg, and only three papers piblishcd on Sa'iirday. A POLICE SET-BACK. 11 veived 10. IS p.m. Si. Terdii'sia tio, August ft. In a eolli-ioi betncell the 'police iml workmen at Seslronitsh railway -latiou. St. Peter-burg, eight pob-ie ■vere killed. AliliHST OF A KKVOIj'.'TIOXAItV. lieceivcd f>, 'J.is p.n. Sr. Pi:tek-i:i no, August (! The police at KielV dis-uvcivd bombs in the house of ex-Lieutenant Konovea'olT, who lias been arrested He was recently dismissed from the army for spreading revolutionary pr .'poganda among the soldiers.