A FARCICIAL REVOLUTION.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2644, 4 September 1906, Page 7

A FARCICIAL REVOLUTION.

—* — TWO STUDENTS AND A DOCTOR TOOK POSSESSION OF A RUSSIAN TOWN. *

Even the Russian revolution has its comic episodes. At Proscuroff. a considerable town near the Austrian frontier, two students and a doctor suddenly proclaimed themselves leaders of the revolutionary party, haranguing the populace in the market place. The Governor, to their amazement, took them at their own valuation and summoned thorn to the palace. They, fearing a trap, loftily replied that if he wished to see them they, would give him audience at their house the following morning at o'clock. Thoroughly alarmed, he despatched an aide-de-camp to interview them, who asked. "Are you representatives of the proletariat?" I'hey replied in the affirmative. "What, asked the aide, "are your demands? "The withdraw 1 of troops and police from the town, except such as wish to accept the revolution." The Governor immediately acceded, shut himself tip in his house, and the three revolutionaries proceeded to administer the affairs of the district, to the astonishment of the population. When the Provincial Governor heard of the farce he sent a company of soldiers to arrest the triumvirate and restore the Czar's authority, but the revolutionaries fled across the frontier, taking with them the contents of the treasury, which they are now understood to be spending in Paris.