RUSSIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8204, 7 August 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

TROOPS FIRE ON OFFICERS. SEVERAL KILLED AND WOUNDED. Recoived August 6, 8 54 am. ST. PETERSBURG, August 5. The troops at Dashla'jar, on July 30th, laid their political demands before tbe colonel. On the meu refusing to disperse the officer flrod his revolver amongst them, whereupon the troops poured a volley into the officers, killing six and wounding four. Another officer was bayoneted and theu hanged. The Chaplain was similarly treated. T lhe mutiny at Gogaue has been quelled. Two hundred sailors have been arrested.

THE STRIKE AT ST. PETERSBURG. Received August 6, 9.7 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 5. Fifty-five thousand workers are on strike iu St. Petersburg, but the strike of railway employees has not commenced. A DISAFFECTED REGIMENT. ST. PETERSBURG, August 4. A Moboow regiment of Guards, now quartered at St. Petersburg, ie agitating for the removal of economic and political grievances. The men are seriously disaffected, and refuse to listen to the appeals of their officers. Cossaoks have been sent to the disaffected barracks. THE KRONSTADT OUTBREAK. A CAPTAIN'S ESCAPE. Received August 6, 8.56 a.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 5. Mutinous sailors at Kronstadt arrested Captain Krimtsky and arraigned him before a hastily summoned tribunal, inoluding oivilians and women, who sentenced him to death. When he was facing the firing party a cry was raised: "Tbe Yenisei Regiment is coming." Taking advantage of theopportunity,Oaptain Krimtsky bolted, and although he was fired aft he succeeded in escaping without injury.

A MAGAZINE EXPLOSION. FIFTY MUTINEERS KILLED. Received August 6, 8.54 a.m. ST.PETEKSBURQ, August 5. A magazine explosion at Sveaborg killed fifty mutineers, including many of the Fed Guards. The latter, contesting mainly of hooligans, favoured the establishment of a Sooial Democratic State. Their leader, M. Kock, has been arrested at HeHngfors. The shells fired by the insurgents at Sveabotg damaged the church and fortress, while the streets were strewn with fragments of Bhells. BOMBS DISCOVERED. EX-LIEUTENANT ARRESTED. Received August 6, 9.30 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 6. | The police at Kieff have discovered bombs, together with annotated plans of Kieff and St. Petersburg in the house of an ex lieuteuaut, named KonovealofF, who has been arresied. He was recently dismissed from the army for sprendiag revolutionary propaganda among the soldiers.

ALAKM AT ODESSA. REPORTED MUTINY AT SEVASTOPOL. Reoeived August 6, 10.30 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 6. The people in Odessa are iu a state of suppressed panio owing to the reports that a mutiny on a vast scale has broken out at Sevastopol. The telegraph wires have been out. POLISH SOCIALISTS' PROCLAMATION. Received Angust 0, 10.48 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 6. The Polish Socialists at Warsaw in p a proclamation admit that they were responsible for the recent train robbery. They also murdered twenty police officers during the last week. FIGHT BETWEEN POLICE AND WORKMEN. 'EIGHT POLICEMEN iKILLED. Received August 6, 10.4 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 6. . A collision between the police and workmen ocounod atSestroresb railway station at St. Petersburg. Eght policemen were killed. PRINTERS ON STRIKE. Received August 6, 11.30 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, August 6. tyTie printers in the newspaper offices have struck. Only three papers were published in St. Petersburg on Saturday.

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