THE RUSSIAN REVOLT

Evening Star, Issue 12881, 2 August 1906, Page 6

THE RUSSIAN REVOLT

Press Association—-By Telegraph— Copyright. 'FURTHER MUTINIES.^ CONTRADICTORY AND SENSATION \I REPORTS. ST. PETERSBURG, • August 1. The sappers at Sveaboig mutinied. They seized three detached forts, and bombarded , the main fortress, the artillerymen helping them. Details of the occurrence are, however, contradictory. One account states that 600 persons were killed or wounded, but the censored statements say tha* “ some ” were killed or wounded, and that the outbreak has been suppressed. . The garrison at Deshlagar, when they heard of the dissolution of the Duma, murdered the commander and eight other officers, and assumed charge; of the local administration. WIDE DISAFFECTION. ST. PETERSBURG, August 1. (Received August 2, at 8.43 a.m.) Two companies of Sveaborg infantry joined the mutineers, besides two battalions from Abo. THE AFRICAN JEWS. LORD SELBORNE’S MESSAGE. LONDON, August 1. (Received August 2, at 9.15 a.m.) Reuter’s Johannesburg correspondent reports that a meeting. of 2,000 Rand Jews adopted a resolution in favor of the establishment of an autonomous Jewish • colony in British East Africa as the only way to secure the freedom of the Russian Jews.

Lord , Selbome, High Commissioner for South Africa, wrote expressing bis deepest indignation at the unparalleled horrors of the Russian massacres.