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Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 135, 8 June 1906, Page 5

CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT.]

DARK CLOUDS IN RUSSIA. [ ♦ ! ANOTHER SERIOUS MUTINY THREATENED. STRIKE AT ODESSA. THE TROUBLESOME LAND QUESTION. [I'RMSS ASSOCIATION.] (Received June 8, 8.25 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 7th June. The Russian seamen on strike at Odessa threaten that, in tho event of seamen and firemen being imported from the Baltic, they will blow up foreign shipping in the harbour and create international complications. The infantry, with quickfirers^ areguarding the harbour. THE AGRARIAN PROGRAMME. DEBATES IN PARLIAMENT. STRIKE AT MOSCOW CONTEMPLATED. ST. PETERSBURG, 7th June. Socialist members of th© "Party of Toil" proposed that th© Duma should refer th© agrarian programme to local committees elected by direct universal suffrage. The peasant members of the Toil Party, recognising in the Socialists disguised revolutionaries, refused them thoir guidance. The Duma almost unanimously rejected the proposal. Moscow workmen, reversing their previous attitude, now strongly support the Duma, and contemplate a general strike if M. Goremykin, Premier, continues his defiant attitude, but they will not have recourse to an armed rising. PREPARING TO SEIZE LAND. (Received June 8, 8.25 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 7th June. Fearing that the Duma will be unable to secure a settlement of tho agrarian question, the peasants are preparing to seize land, especially at Voronezh, Saratoff', and Grodno. The Government offers the landless peasants in the contra! and southern provinces three And a-half million acres on the right bank of the Volga, in the Samara district. j THE BLACK SEA MUTINY, PETITION TO THE DUMA. ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP THE RINGLEADER. (Received June 8, 8.25 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 7th July. One hundred and sixty-three seamen who were implicated in the mutiny on tho battleship Kniaz Potemkin, and who. Have remained in Roumania since they landed, have petitioned th© Duma to obtain an amnesty for them. Russia has offered tho Roumanians twenty thousand roubles if they kidnap Matuschenko, the ringleader of th© mutiny, and deliver him -in Russia by sea. •A friend has enabled Matuschenko to quit Roumania. INTERVIEW WITH THE RINGLEADER. I had the opportunity of seeing tho Russian revolutionary Matuschenko, and had a short conversation with him (wrote Reuters correspondent at Bucharest on tho 14, th April). He looks much better than when he arrived from Constantza after landing from the Kniaz Potemkin. The leader of the "first Russian Republic" has a modest and quiet appearance, but his eager and determined look shows the man of action. Matuschenko speaks but little Roumanian, which he has learned since his arrival in the country. You must now leave the country. Where are you going to? Yon know that the point of the frontier you wish to pass over is at your choice. I am leaving via Verciorova, intending to settle in Austria. At least, that is my plan. Where have you been since you left Roumania? I have been three months in Geneva. And why did you leave Switzerland to come again to us? There were many Russian political refugees in Switzerland. The amnesty has determined us all to return ; we all have been longing for our native country. Remaining alone at Geneva, I determined to go again to Roumania, where I was certain to find some more of my old companions. Why didn't you go back to Russia? It is true that the amnesty included me also ; but I heard that three of my old colleagues who had been condemned to death and to whom amnesty had also been promised on their return to their native country wero sent to Bibena for fifteen years! Had I re* turned to Russia they would probably have hanged me ! But I can assure you that I sometimes feel such a desiro to see my country again that the idea of passing the 'frontier comes into my head, even at the risk of losing my lifo. What, have you been doing during the tune you stayed in .Roumania? lam a mechanic and fitter. I know those trades vtery well. I havo stayed some time at Campina ; lately I worked at Constantza, where I earned 4.50f a day. And why did you come to Bucharest? I have been engaged at Mr. Popovici'6 mill, where I was to start on 14tB April. What do, you think of your expulsion? I believe the Roumanian Government has been wrongly informed, by people who wanted to give themselves import* ance, and who were paid for this object. I assure you I did not expect, after the assurances that wore given to mo (and considering the perfect attitude of tho Russian revolutionaries of the Potemkin), that the Government of this democratic and independent country would take this measure. However, L. havo a clear conscience, having workeaS for tho interest of my country, and ] oven on the Potemkin I tried to avoid unnecessary bloodshed as much as possible. What took place could not be avoided. Arid with tears in his eyes Matuschenko added s "I thank the Roumanian people for the warm and friend: ly reception which was given to me and my colleagues of the Potemkin."