THE RUSSIAN REVOLT

Evening Star, Issue 12883, 4 August 1906, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN REVOLT

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

MUTINY AT KRONSTADT.

ALARM IN ST. PETERSBURG.

A LEADER WANTED.

$ ST. .PETERSBURG, August 3. ' Two thousand riv-* hundred sailors and 400 soldiers at Kronstadt have mutinied, and,a state ofwa r has been proclaimed. ~ The official statement Says that the only Wo nayal battalions quartered ashore revolted at night. The infantry, armed with quick-firers, dispersed the sailors, and owing to the populace attempting to break the gates of the arsenal the mutineers took reluge in Fort Constantine. The red flag was hoisted by the men, but a bombardment led to their surrender.

The casualties included four captains, who. were killed, while Admiral Beklemsbheff and two captains were wounded. It i< asserted at St. Petersburg that four mutinous warships from Helsingfors arrived at Kronstadt, and that the guns oi. the fortress were trained on them, but did not fire.

The utmost alarm and apprehension prevail at St. Petersburg. Two companies of sappers and miners joined the mutineers. They entered the officers' quarters, killed Colonel Alexandroff, of the miners, also the second in command, and captured the other officers. The sending of telegrams is forbidden. The cause of the outbreak is admitted to be entirely political. WHY THE MUTINY FAILED. ST. PETERSBURG, August 3. (Received Augusts, at 7.43 a.m.) It has been ascertained that the mutineers, on reaching Fort Constantine, did not receive any he'p from the artillerymen, who were surprised asleep. The latter defended their own officers and guns, so that the mutineers were compelled to meet the fire of the machine guns with their rifles. Four rounds from the hj „■ guns secured their surrender, a,nd immediately 6even of tliem were court-martialled and shot for murdering their chiefs.

MUTINY AT REVEL

ST. PETERSBURG, August 3.

Portion of the crew of the cruiser Pamayatazova mutinied near Revel, and killed the captain and four of the officers. The local section of the crew joined together, got the upper hand of the mutineers, and delivered 150 of the latter to the authorities.

The cruiser Asia, which was at Abo, hoisted the red flag and started for Hclsingfors.

THE SVEABORG MUTINY.

ST. PETERSBURG, August 3

It is now apparent that the outbreak at Sveaborg was preconcerted, and was intended to attract a large number of troops from St. Petersburg, arid thus facilitate the mutiny at Kronstadt, and possibly St. Petersburg. The misguided zeal of the Finnish Red Guards in damaging the railway impeded the movement of the Russian troops, however; hence the collapse of the revolutionaries' plans. The odlv result of their fiasco at Kronstadt will probably be to drive the Government further in. the direction of reaction. A STRIKE DECIDED ON. ST. PETERSBURG, August 3. A conference of all the revolutionary bodies in St. Petersburg has decided in f,avor of an immediate general strike.

THE POLISH UNREST.

A GENERAL SHOT DEAD

ST. PETERSBURG, August 3. (Received August 4, at 7.43 a.m.)

General Markgrafking, chief of the gendarmerie and assistant for police affaire to the Governor-General of Warsaw, was shot dead at his country residence. Reuter's Agency reports that the Go-vernor-General threatens to resign unless the strictest state of 6iege is proclaimed in Warsaw. MURDER OF M. HERTZENSTEIN. SUSPICION OF OFFICIAL CONNIVANCE. ST. PETERSBURG, August 3. (Received August 4, at 7.43 a,m.) A leaetionary newspaper at Moscow published the news of M. Hertzenstein's murder twelve hours before it was perpetrated. [Professor Hertzenstein represented the Moscow law faculty in the Duma. His maiden speech on May 21 created a profound sensation. It was a crushing indictment of the Government's financial and agrarian policy, which, he said, was a deliberate plan of keeping the.,peasant in the darkness of ignorance, a criminal selfish stimulation of industry at the cost of the husbandman, and, above all, a rapacious mishandling of the peasants' bank and savings banks. He showed how the funds of these institutions were systematically utilised in the interest not of the people, but of high-placed officials and courtiers' pointing out especially how the peasants'' bank was used not for the purchase of lands in the irterest of the rural population, but in order to enable persons like the Minister of the Court, Count Witte, Count Ignatieff, and others, to sell the'r estates at enormous prices, v' hj afterwards fell with crushing burden upon the peasant. M. Hertzenstein then directed the fire of bis eloquence upon M. Petrazycki. It was (says an eye-witness) a pathetic spectacle to see one of the persecuted race, reputed to be the deadliest foe of the peasants, stand forth as their champion, and to hear these same peasants. who have hitherto been represented to be the direst enemies of the Jew, wildly applaud his words. Professor Hertzenstein declared that the peasant need never be feared as the enemy of civilisation; that the peasant could be trusted better than anyone else to assure the progress and prosperity of Russia.] BRITISH SYMPATHY. LONDON, August 5. At the International Congress of Socialists, Mr A. Henderson (Labor member for Durham) the cordial sym,/-*'*/ of the Congres to the Russian Labor ;uid Socialistic organisations in their efforts to rouse the civilians and the military to resist and overthrow the cruel tyranny of the Czar and Bureaucracy, and also to urge the British people to subscribe funds in aid of the movement for freedom. [ln the House of Commons on June 21 Mr W. Thome, the Labor member for West Ham, S., asked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether his attention had been called to the unchecked massacre of Jews at Bialystok now going on; whether he had observed the execution by hanging of children of tender age by the Russian Government at Riga; whether he had been informed of the systematic persecution of innocent people at Moscow, Kief, Warsaw, and other large towns; and whether seeing that th's country broke off diplomatic relations with Servia, and constantly remonstrated with Turkey for less serious outrages, he would consider whether the time had come that Great Britain should protest formally against, the continuance of such practices by the Russian Government, and break off diplomatic relations until they, were put v an end to.—Sir E. Grey: The answer is in the negative.—Mr Ramsay Macdonald (Leicester) asked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether his attention had been / drawn to the outbreak of Jewish massacres in Western Russia, iri which the Russian authorities were implicated; and whether, in consequence, he would reconsider the .propriety of sending

Britishi warships at the present momant on a _ friendly : official visit to Russian Baltic ports.—Sir E. Grey: I cannot add;any v thing to the answer I gave th 6 othor daj to the hon. member for Merthyt Tydyil.]'. SPLENDID COURAGE OF ' LOYAL v .OFFICERS. WOMEN PARTICIPATE. ST. PETERSBURG, August 3.;. (Received August 4, at 8.44 a>m.) The officers at Kronstadt displayed splendid courage when repelling the mutineers.' Admiral Beklemysheff has succumbed to his wounds. Many armed women joined the mutineers. 'l. ANOTHER MUTINY. GOVERNMENT PREPARATIONS. '•..■' ST. PETERSBURG, August 3. : (Received August 4, at 8.44 a.m.) ~■ vThe men in the artillery 6ummer camp at Rembertofi, near Warsaw, have mutinied. Troops have been sent to suppress the rising. ' ■ Fearing the approach of mutinous wai> s-hips, the Government are fortifying the mouth of the Neva. Troops guard all the •stations*on the Finnish-Railway, between Viborg and St. Petersburg.