New-York tribune., 1906-06-12
MUTINIES AT P0LTAVA
DIS4FFECTION SPREADS.
Il Great Peasant ReUOIt- Stocks
FMI-MOre Murders.

PoltaVa, June 11.-Mutlny mas DrOkeH out ia
the Eletz Regiment Of infantry over the failure
OF the military authorities to fulfil their pledges
regarding improvement of service conditions
The mutiny threatens to spread TO the rest OF
the garrison.
The police and small force of loyal Cossacks
here are utterly unable to cope with the mutin-
eers who are armed with rifles and have sup
ply of ball cartridges They left their barracks
in a body yesterday afternoon and held meet
ing in the public square, at which delegates
from the Sesky Regiment OF infantry and the
artillery brigade promised that these forces
would join in the mutiny to-day. The chief of
police in advancing, with the hope of dispensing
the meeting was fired at, but was not wounded
The horse Of his Cossack orderly was killed
The Eletz Regiment again left its barracks at
midnight and marched with a band playing
through the town TO the non-commissioned
officers school, the members of which Joined
the mutineers The latter, while returning TO
the barracks. disarmed and beat the policemen
whom they met
The public is greatly excited. anticipating that
the revolutionists will seize the opportunity to
begin an armed revolt in support of the mutin-
Gus soldiers
Later in the day the Eletz Regiment paraded
before the garrison commander. who promised
to grant several of the mems demands. After
ward a review of the garrison was held in
which the regiment took part
ST Petersburg June 1.-THE newspapers OF
the capital are filed with dispatches reporting
rarian troubles in the interior of the empire,
in which the work of the revolutionists and
directing brain clearly manifest Where
1t is impossible to incite the peasantry TO arson
| and destruction the movement takes the form
i Of agrarian strikes. There are three well
| marked lines In the province of Kherson the
| Bessarabic peasants refuse to begin work in
| the fields until their demands are granted, al
| though these demands were not formulated until
after the present crop was planted. In the
| central provinces the field hands are insisting
on minimum wage of about 81 30 day, while
| in the provinces Of Saratov and TchernigOv and
| along the lower Volga unconditional strike
has been begun. Famine already is acute in
several districts and in the province of Voro-
| nezh typhus has become epidemic
| The Minister Of War is investigating the
trouble with the Rostoff Grenadiers at Moscow,
| who have been confined to barracks on account
| of disaffection growing out of the non-fulfl-
ment of the reforms promised after the mutiny
| Of December last
The panic among the landowners is shown
| by the increased offerings Of land to the agra
rian banks. slump in the shares of land
banks on the Bourse to-day demoralized the en-
! tire market. Imperial is fell half a point. to
| 7Sss. and Imperial 5s closed at S7$. the lowest
prices touched in this movement.
Warsaw. June 1.-THE terrorists of Poland
| continue 10 wage a relentless against state.
| municipal and police officials. Hardly a day
| passes without an assassination. Last night the
Mayor of Siedlce, the chief of the Governors
office and the secretary OF the police board
| were walking IN the streets OF Siedlce when
| band Of terrorists. armed with revolvers at
| tackled them. The Mayor and the secretary died
| from their wounds and the other official was
mortally injured.
| Riazan, Juno 1.-THE peasants. who seized all
| the private estates in the district OF Ronnenburg
and planted the fields. have driven off the police
| who were sent 20 oust them strong force of
| cavalry left Riazan to-day for the district Of
| Ronnenburg
odessa June 11.-Since the beginning OF the
| repatriation Of the troops which took part In
the with Japan. $4,000 men. including the
Russian prisoners from Japan. have been landed
here and distributed through the interior OF the
| country. The most stringent precautions were
| observed during the period In order to prevent
| the slightest intercourse between the returning
troops and the townspeople. II was unde-
niable that the troops coming home were largely
diseffected. Special trains awaited each troop
ship, Cossack guards cordoned the landing
stage. and the soldiers marched direct from
the ship to the train and dispatched to their
destinations with the utmost expedition.
The spirit OF disefrection more no.
ticeable among the officers than in the men.
The former frankly expressed the opinion that
If parliament could hold it's until the spring
II would be able to count the army TO sup
port its demands.
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