THE RUSSIAN CRISIS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 164, 11 July 1906, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN CRISIS.

FRESH MILITARY MUTINY. -- • OFFICER AND TROOPERS KILLED. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 9.20 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, July 10. The latest military mutiny began yesterday, at Tamboff, capital of the Central Russian province of the same name. Here the Seventh Battalion of the Kasarva Regiment of Cavalry broke into active revolt against their officers, and barricaded themselves in their barracks. When a force of loyal troops was sent to suppress them, thay fired upon them, killing an officer and a number of troopers. ATTEMPT ON TRUNK RAILWAY BRIDGE. ST. PETERSBURG, July 10. Twenty arrfted men on Sunday expelled a picket guarding the railway bridge over the Vistula River, and tried to destroy the structure with dynamite. Reinforcements arrived and 69-ove them off before they had effected their purpose. [The bridge in question crosses the Vistula at Warsaw, and carries the St. Petersburg-Vienna main railway line.] A DOUMA MINISTRY. AUTHORITATIVE PROPOSAL. VIEWS OF THE DEPUTIES. ST. PETERSBURG, July 10. The suggestion made by General Trepoff for the formation of a Constitutional Democratic Cabinet is believed to have emanated from the highest circles, and it has arousd intense interest. M. Milnikoff, M. Heyden and other leaders of the National Douma consider the scheme opportune. The leadsrs of the Constitutional Democrats in the National Douma say the two cardinal points in their programme are the selection of the Ministry from the majority in the Douma, and the acceptance of partial expropriation of private lands, as the solution of the agrarian problem. The party does not insist on the immediate introduction of responsible government. , BYELOSTOK AND AFTER. THE DOUMA'S WARNING. CZAR THANKS MURDERING TROOPS. ST. PETERSBURG, July 10. A heated debate has taken place in the National Douma on the Byelostok massacre. Members warned the Government of the danger of turning a deaf ear to the murmurs of the coming storm, which threatened a terrible explosion, involving tremendous consequences. The ' Czar, in fulsome terms, has thanked his troops at Byelostok for their "splendid and tireless devotion."