RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8203, 6 August 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE KRONSTADT OUTBREAK. DEATH OP AN ADMIRAL. -ARMED WOMEN AMONG THE MUTINEERS. ST. PETERSBURG, August 3. I£ has been ascertained that the mutineers, on reaching Fort Constantino, did not receive any help from the artillery. The men, who we.e surprised asleep, defended their own officers and guns. Thus the mutineers were compelled to mept the fire of machine guns with rifles, four rounds from big guns securing their surrender. Thereupon seven were court-mar-tialled and shot forthwith for having murdered their chiefs. The officers at Kronstadt displayed splendid courage in repelling the mutineers. Admiral Beklemysheff, who was injured at Fort Constantine, has succumbed to hia wounds. Many armed women joiued the mutineers. A GENERAL KILLED. ST. PETERSBURG, August 3. General Markgrafky, Chiof of the Gendarmerie and Aessistant for Police Affairs to the Governor-Gene-ral of Warsaw, was shot dead at his country resideuoe. PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES. FORTIFYING THE MOUTH OF THE NEVA. SI. PETERSBURG, August 3. Fearing the approach of mutinous warships the Government is fortifying the mouth of the Neva. Troops guard all the stations on the Finnish railway between Viborg and St. Petersburg. GOVERNOR-GENERAL AT WARSAW ALARMED. LONDON, August 3. Router's Agency reports that the Governor-General at Warsaw threatens ' to resign unless the striotest state of siege is proclaimed at Warsaw. THE MURDER OP M. HERTZENSIEIN. ——— ST. PETERSBURG, Augut 3. A reactionary newspaper at Moscow published the news of the murder of ML Hertzenstein, a prominent member of the Duma, who was shot at Terioki, twelve hours before the deed was perpetrated. ANOTHER REVOLT. ST. PETERSBURG, August 3. The men in the artillery summer uamp at Rembertoff, .iear Warsaw, have mutinied. Troops have been sent to suppress the outbreak. BOMB OUTRAGE. A GOVERNOR KILLED. ASSASSIN ARRESTED. Received August 5, 5.7 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 4. A bomb, thrown by a revolutionist, decapitated and dismembered the Governor of Samara. The assassin has been arrested. GENERAL STRIKE AT SL PETERSBURG. TRAMS AND STEAMERS STOP RUNNING. THOUSANDS OF FACTORY HANDS OUT. Received August 5, 5.10 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 4. A general strike has begun at St. Petersburg. The majority of the trams and river steamers have stopped running. Thousands of factory hands have struok. The delegates of the Council of Workmen'are oo operating with the revolutionary committees. The railway men at St. Petersburg and Moscow have been ordered to strike to-day. THE SVEABORG OUTBREAK. Reoeived August 6, 1 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 5. . The ringleaders in the [Sveaborg outbreak tried *,o oicnoe in three boats. The guns and Maxims in the 'batteries were turned nn them. Many were shot. Others loaped overhoard. Two boats were reuaptured. THE MUTINY ON THE PAMYSTAZOVA. Reoeived August 6, 1 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 5. The mutiny on board the Pamystazova oocurred'during the night. The looks were removed from the officers' rifles. The elootric light was extinguished when the mutineers commenced firing. The officers fought desperately. Six were killed. The officers eventually [launched a boat and left the ship.

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