CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.]
ANARCHY IN RUSSIA.
PORTION OF A GARRISON DISARMED. PRISON OFFICIALS WOUNDED. [PBESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received June 22, 8.9 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 21st June. A portion of the Sevastopol garrison mutinied. They seized three guns, but were disarmed without any fighting taking place. A bomb wounded M. Humbert, the unpopular governor of the Kovno prison, and grievously wounded the deputy-governor. The Bolkhofsky regiment mutinied at Riazan. They surrounded and fired into the officers' clubrooms, killing several. Alarming reports are current of disaffection among Guards and Hussar regiments. Several newspapers have been confiscated for referring to the subject. JEWS LEAVING THE COUNTRY. (Received Juno 22, 9.5 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 21st June. Thousands of Jews are fleeing towards Austria and Germany. FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS' POSITION. UNABLE TO INTERFERE. (Received June 22, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, 21st June. Mr. Runciman, replying in the House of Commons on behalf of Sir Edward Grey, said tho Government cannot interfere respecting the massacre of Jews in Russia. NEW YORK, 21st June. President Roosevelt sent a sympathetic message to a meeting of Jews in New York, but declared that official action was impracticable.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 147, 22 June 1906, Page 5
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187CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.] ANARCHY IN RUSSIA. Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 147, 22 June 1906, Page 5
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