Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-11
SITTING OUT
THE MUT|N|ES
1000 Soldiers and Sailors to
Be Court-MartiaIed.
RESULT OF INVESTIGATIONS
Into the Uprisings at Cronstadt and
Sveaborg.
PROSPECTS OF MEN FRIGHTENED
By Cars Decision to Name Commits
dons to Probe for Cause
Of Outbreaks.
Into the Uprisings at Cronstadt and
Sveaborg.
RESPECTS OF MEN FRIGHTENED

ST. PETERSBURG, August 11-After thu
preliminary Investigations the military and
naval prosecutors have decided to try by
court-martial no less than 1900 soldiers
and sailors who participated in the 1Cron-
stadt and Sveaborg mutines. The pros
poets of the men, however, have been
frightened by the decision of the emperor
to appoint two extraordinary commissions,
headed. respectively, by Generals Vodar
and Guncheroff and Adrnirals Mollas and
Makaror to investigate the causes OF the
| outbreaks at Cronstadt and Sveaborg, and
to determine the responsibility for the
generalization.
War Minister Ridger and Minister of Ma
rine Birileff are said to be arriving at
the same conclusion as Admiral Skrydlofr,
the commander Of the Black Sea feet that
the officers are more to blame than the
men. The commissions will inquire into the
general conditions prevailing in the navy and
army, and 1T may result in a very great
shake-up. including the wholesale cashier
ing and retirement OF commissioned officers.
A proposition to furlough indefinitely the
superf1uous sailors on the Baltic station is
being seriously considered. 1t Is pointed
out that there are no ships nor occupa-
tion for them, and that they are merely a
source of Decentralization.
The Government Interested.
the administration to participate vigorously
in the electoral campaign is furnished by an
order Of the minister of the interior to the
police throughout the empire to make re-
ports as speedily as possible on all the DO
itical parties in their districts, their
strength. organization, membership, activity
and press organs.
Count Heyden today contributes to the
controversy over the failure of himself and
his friends to enter the ministry, an omen
letter declaring that they insist upon having
at least five places in the cabinet. in order
to have preponderance, but that they were
obliged to refuse the places finally offered
as this would have made them negligible
quantity.
The revelations made In open letters by
Count Heyden. Prince Nicholas Lvoff and
M. Shipoff regarding the cause of break
down of the negotiations looking to their
entering the cabinet place Premier Stolypin
in a rather bad light. The letters show that
the government utterly refused to yield
anything in the matter of principle and only
tried to give the cabinet an appearance OF
liberality by taking in two public men.
Prince Lvof said 1t absurd to ask
them to become mere government clerks
They had specially insisted upon getting
the portfolios Of the interior vital to OBJ
tanning public confidence.
None of the liberal papers have vet been
allowed to resume publication. The Novoe
Vremya, which often reflects the sentiments
of the upper circfes, displays a constantly
stronger tone IN IaVOr OF q rigorous sup
preston of the revolutionary movement.
Today 1t declares that every member of
the outlawed parliament who signed the
Viborg manifesto must be prosecuted. The
censorship continues to forbid the publica-
ton of all foreign criticisms of the govern
mentS course.
A renewal of peasant troubles on small
scale is reported from Vladimir and Kos
troma provinces.
ALI the important political captives are
again being incarcerated in the fortress Of
ST. Peter and St. Paul. The use of this
fortress as a political prison was discon-
tnued after the amnesty of last fall
Secret Printing House Found.
MOSCOW. August 1.-THE police have
discovered in a neighboring village a secret
printing establishment of the Revolutionary
League where the Viborg and Terjiok
manifestos to the army and navy have been
printed. The police also captured three
bombs.
1t is learned that among the members Of
the revolutionary committee recently ar
rested in Moscow was Nine. Efronoff, who
is said to have been the chief of the CEN
trail organization of the social revolutionists
and peasants league of the Moscow dis
trict.
Fifty workmen agitators were expelled
yesterday from Moscow.
The Octoberists' Program.
At the session of the central committee
of the Octoberists tomorrow, at which the
platform committee will present new pro-
gram on which the party expects to appeal
to the country at the coming elections, the
progressive drift of the country will be rec
ognized by proposals for universal suffrage
direct in the cities and in two stages in the
country and the enlargement of the pow
ers of parliament to include a revision of
treaties as well as a discussion of loans.
taxes and concessions. NJ. Shipon, former
finance minister, will also propose the re-
organization of the council of the empire.
or upper house. as an advisory body with
no legislative powers.
The platform will adopt negative atti-
tude on the proposition for a general ex-
preparation of the land, mentioning only
division Of state, crown and church lands
and an extension Of the activity of the local
commissions. 1t will recommend the aboli-
ton of the communal system, and all spe-
cial laws in order to place the peasantry on
an equal footing with the other classes;
the amelioration Of the condition of the
workmen, restricted autonomy for non-Rus-
slams and will declare that the enactment
of measure providing free education
should be the first care Of parliament.