THE RUSSIAN REVOLT
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, AN INTOLERABLE SITUATION. DECEPTION AND THREATS. ’ ' " LONDON, July 25. It has transpired that the dissolution of the Duma was decided upon ten days ago. Before the Duma began to discuss the terms of its appeal to the people M. Stolypin, the Premier, undertook to pacify the country with prudent reforms. While strongly upholding the authority of the Czar, he believed that the Government had already mad© an overture to the Constitutional Democrats to join the Cabinet. ‘ The Times ’ states that the deputies from the Duma who were discussing the manifesto at Viborg have been allowed to return to St. Petersburg, though the Governor of the city reminded them that they were no longer immune from arrest. THE AUTOCRAT AT WORK. THE CAMPAIGN INAUGURATED. ST. PETERSBURG. July 25. The police have confiscated the St. Petersburg newspapers wholesale. • M. Stolypin, the Premier, warns all Governors and Prefects that the struggle has begun against the enemies of society, and states that disturbances and revolutionary movements most be suppressed by all legal means. v British ships have been warned that they are likely to be overhauled in the Baltic Sea by Russian warships in order to prevent the clandestine importation of explosives. THE ODESSA OUTBREAK. ST. PETERSBURG, duly 25. The Odessa authorities enjoin private citizens to surrender their arms on pain of exile. Eight Jews have already been killed. A SAVAGE AT LARGE. ST. PETERSBURG, July 25. General Trepoff asserts that despite the bowlings of Western Europe aU the revolutionists will be in strait-jackets before long. REVOLUTIONARIES ARRESTED. ST. PETERSBURG, July 25. Sixty-five members of two of the most important of the Socialist revolutionary committees at Moscow have been arrested, including the principal strike organisers. THE FIRST ARMY OUTBREAK. TEMPORARILY SUPPRESSED. ST. PETERSBURG, July 25. The first military outbreak resulting from the present situation occurred at Brestlitovsk, where the siege artillery and two companies of the fortress artillery mutinied. The Vladikavas Regiment, with machine gnns, surrounded them, and arrested all the fortress ariiHery and 240 members of tlie siege artillery, also a number of engineers. The mutineers wounded General Soanoff and another-officer, and destroyed the Officers’ Club. NO DUMA TALK IN TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 25. (Received July 26, at 8.55 a.m.) The Turkish Censor has prohibited all reference in the newspapers to the dissolution of the Duma. PECULIAR CRITICISM. LONDON, July 25. Some of the American and French newspapers consider that Sir H. Campbell-Ban-nerman’s reference to the Duma at the Parliamentary Congress, which was greeted by the delegates with loud cheers, was “a blazing indiscretion.”
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Evening Star, Issue 12875, 26 July 1906, Page 6
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427THE RUSSIAN REVOLT Evening Star, Issue 12875, 26 July 1906, Page 6
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