THE RUSSIAN REVOLT

Evening Star, Issue 12900, 24 August 1906, Page 6

THE RUSSIAN REVOLT

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. THE GOVERNMENT AND REFORM. ST. PETERSBURG, August 23. (Received August 24, at 8.51 a.m.) The Council of Ministers at St. Petersburg are preparing Bills for universal primary education, the repeal of the restrictive education laws in Poland and Lithuania, and for the equalisation of the rights of peasants with other classes. MUTINY AT SAMARKAND. PEOPLE PANIC-STRICKEN, ST. PETERSBURG, August 23. (Received August 24, at 7.35 a.m.) The Twenty-fourth Ural Cossack Regiment at Samarkand imprisoned their officers, and elected others from the ranks. The commander of the garrison has demanded the mutineers to surrender, and summoned the artillery. The people are panic-stricken. A REVOLUTIONARY DEMONSTRATION. ST. PETERSBURG, August 23. (Received August 24, at 7.35 a.m.) The Cossacks near Tsaritsin made a revolutionary demonstration, releasing a seminarist who had been arrested for conducting a propaganda. GENERAL TREPOFF POISONED. ST. PETERSBURG, August 23. A cook and three other servants have been arrested on a charge of attempting to poison General Tropoff, who is in a critical condition. PROTECTING THE POLICE. ST. PETERSBURG, August 23. (Received August 24, at 7.55 a.m.) Owing to the activity of the Terrorists the citizens at Riga have officially united to purchase breastplates for the police. PROPOSED RAILWAY STRIKE. ST. PETERSBURG, August 23. A Congress, hold in Finland, at which 142 railway delegates were present, decided that an early general strike is feasible, and instructions to prepare for it are being issued to railway men. DESTRUCTION AND RIOT, ST. PETERSBURG, August 23. Disturbances have occurred in several localities in the Samara district. The peasants at Vyatka are burning the State forests and resisting the Cossacks. One hundred arrests have been made in Moscow, chiefly of Social Democrats. AN EXILE’S ESCAPE. ST. PETERSBURG, August 23. M. Melhikof, the abettor of M. Sipyaguin’s murder, has escaped from a Siberian prison. [M. Sipyaguin, who was Minister of the Interior, was assassinated on April 17, 1902.]