THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13642, 11 July 1906, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

A FIGHT WITH SOCIALISTS. PROCEEDING IN THE DUMA. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ST. PF.TKBSI'.URfi, July 9. (Received July 10, at 8.55 iun.) The foui'lii battalion 01 the. Odessa Regiment mttlinied at Kief, and appealed to the whole regiment to join them, as a- protest, against rotten food and the commander's tyranny. Eight armed Socialists looted a spirit shop at Lock Four Cossacks pursued I hem into a rye Held, where they fought for six hours'. Three .Socialists were killed and five escaped, t hough wounded. Due Cossack was wounded. July 10. (Received July 1.0, at 9.28 p.in.) The Czar has thanked the troops in fulsome terms lor their .splendid and tireless devotion to duly during the Bielostock massacres. General TrepofFs suggestion for the formation of a Constitutional Democratic Cabinet is believed to have, emanated from higher circles than himself, mid it bus aroused intense interest. M'. Milnikolf, if. Heyden, and other leaders of the Duma consider .he idea opportune.

Twenty armed men expelled a picket which was guarding a railway bridge over Ibe Vistula near Kukowne. and tried to dynamite tins structure. Reinforcement's arrived, however, and drove the miscreants off before the dynamite exploded.

A healed debate took place in the.Duma on Ihe l.ieloslock massacres. The Government was warned of the danger of turning it deaf ear lo Ihe murmurs of Ihe coming sti™ which threatened a terrible explosion, involving tremendous consequences. The leaders of the Constitutional Democrats declare that the two cardinal points in Iheir programme are ths selection of I lie Ministry from the majority in the, Duma and the acceptance of partial expropriation as a solution of the agrarian problem. The party docs not insist on the immediate introduction of 'parliamentary government.