The San Francisco call., 1906-07-30

Sevski Regiment, following the
arrest of private of the First
Battalion who was discovered with
some other soldiers in a shed where the
revolutionists are in the habit of hold
ing meetings.
After the arrest the entire First Bat
TALON, accompanied by a large crowd,
paraded the streets in defiance of the
military authorities. The soldiers pro-
they seized several guns and marched
with them to the prison, where the po-
htioal prisoners are confined.
At this stage all the remainder or
the Poltava garrison was called out.
The local troops fred upon the mutt
neers with machine guns as they were
engaged in breaking down the gate or
the prison. Several men were killed or
wounded. The outbreak was not sup
pressed until 1 o'clock this morning.
DETAILS ARE SUPPRESSED.
ST. PETERSBURG. July 29.-News
of the formidable revolt at Poltava,
which was first predicted in manifes-
tos in Southeastern Russia. will reach
the Russian public through the press
tomorrow Dispatches describing the
occurrence have been suppressed here
and only scanty details are obtainable
by the foreign press correspondents
through the regular telegrapnic cham
nels. The revolutionists, who are al
most as promptly and fully informed
as the Government, declare the trouble
to be far from ended
An official dispatch gives credit to
the statement that machine gun de-
tachments and Cossacils are being used
to suppress the mutinous battalion.
There is the same paucity of details
regarding the outbreak at Shusha, In
the Caucasus. This outbreak. how
ever, is not due to revolutionary
causes but to the immemorial hatred
that exists between Armenians and
Tartars.
TARTARS COMMENCE BATTLE.
The situation at Shusha has become
SO tense that the Governor divided tbs
quarters inhabited by the two races
I by a dead line" which neither factor
! was permitted to cross. The Tartars
4 violated the order not to cross and
| commenced a battle. The garrison In
/ terfered when the combat became gen
| eral, and bombarded without partially
both camps with twenty-one guns. The
| town is said TO have been to large
! extent destroyed. The lasting peace
which the two races are said &c b'
! drawing UP, if judged by past similar
1 agreements, will be only hollow truce
which neither race has any intention
/ of observing
The situation at Tif1is is exceedingly
strained II is announced that armed
force will be used TO disperse an!
gatherings on the streets without pre-
| liminary warning.
! A plenary meeting of the st. Peters
burg Council of Workmen's Deputies
representing 10000 workingmen, wa
held today at Terick, little tow
across the Finnish border, which
now the mecca of all opponents Of tn
Government. The members agree
that a general strike at the presen
moment would be untimely.
ESCAPE OF SAMENKOFF.
There is much jubilation among tn
reVolutionists over the escape fror
prison at Sebastopol of Samenkoff, VIII
is believed to have been an aecomplfc
in the attempt last May on the life Q
General Neptueff. This escape sets a
liberty one of the most dangerous rev
olutionary organizers in Russia. Sa
menkoff is a leading member of tn
central committee of the Royal Revo
lutionists His friends have steadfast
ly maintained that he had no connoc
tion with the plot against Genera
Neptueff and say that the apthoritie
used his presence in Sebastopol on tn
day Of the attempted assassination a
a pretext to arrest and railroad him
the scaffold.