DISTURBANCES IN RUSSIA.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 16, 19 July 1905, Page 5

DISTURBANCES IN RUSSIA.

RAILWAY EMPLOYEES POISONED. ARMED ESCOET OVERPOWERED. [FEESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received July 19, 8.55 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 18th July. Failing to win the support of the employees at the railway workshops at Tiflis, the revolutionaries placed arsenic in the formers' tea,, poisoning twenty and killing ten. Armed revolutionaries overpowered a convict escort bound for Siberia near Elizabethpol, and released ninety-six prisoners. Four boxes containing nearly a million roubles were accidentally found at ti Samara railway station. The boxes, which were labelled with the Red Gross, are believed to have been misappropriated from the Russian army or Red Cross funds. ANOTHER MUTINY REPORTED. (Received July 19, 8.55 a.m.) PARIS, 18th July. The journal Matin reports that the crew of the battleship Emperor Alexander 111. (13,516 tons, 18 knots, and with a complement of 740) mutinied. The ship is said to have left Kronstadt without her officers. THE ZEMSTVO CONGRESS. INTIMIDATION DEFIED. ST. PETERSBURG, 18th July. The Governor of Moscow has assured the organisers of the Congress of Zeaistvos arranged for the 19th inst., at Moscow, that the interference of the police in prohibiting the congress (as announced last week) was not authorised by him, us the/ police took action without his knowledge. He is appealing to .the authorities at St. Petersburg' to permit the congress. Great importance attaches to this week's meetings of the Zemstvos and the Dumas, as well as a conference of delegates representing commercial interests. All are to meet at Moscow. The delegates at each congress intend criticising and denouncing M. Boulyguine's project fen 1 political representation as insufficient, and to censure the Government for delaying the summonI ing of elected representativer of the |> nation. I The organisers of the conference have j defied intimidation. It is considered | the three thousand delegates are too i strong and influential io be suppressed. There is a possibility that the Tsar may hurriedly proclaim M. Boulyguine's scheme in order to anticipate the criticism of the conferences. i i — — .