RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.
. &,'■ Petersburg, July 10; , The Seventh Kasarva Regiment 0* cavalry have mutinied at Tamboft. The troops baricaded the barracks, and killed an officer and trooper belonging to the Regiment sent to suppress the outbreak. #.. The court-martial has acquitted Admiral Rozhctestvensky on the bWges in connection with his defeat in the great naval buttle with tbe Japanese ileet.but found four orhefirs guilty with premeditation of surrendering the warship Biedovy. ' The officers were sentenced to death,but recommended to the Czar s mercy because of the extenuating circumstances, with the request that fchp sentence be commuted to djsiiiiss'ril frorn 1 the service. _ Receive J Jnlyll, y.T)I p.m. The Douma's Labor group declare that it posse-ses absolute proof that orders were sent from St. Petersburg to the police and Government of Bataroir to fire upon any gatherings address-d by deputies when the Douma pro ogued. Deputies were te be Specially singled out, and it afterwards would be alleged that these were accidentally shot.
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Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11677, 12 July 1906, Page 3
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160RUSSIAN AFFAIRS. Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11677, 12 July 1906, Page 3
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