Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-30
NEWS OF REVOLT SUPPRESSED
Trouble at PoItava Said to Have
Reached an Alarming Stage

rouple at HoItaVd oalO TO f1aVe
Reached an Alarming Stage
BY Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 29.-News
of the formidable revolt at Poltava,
which was first predicted in manifestos
in southeastern Russia, will reach the
Russian public through the press to-
morrow.
Dispatches of the occurrences have
been suppressed here and only scanty
details are obtainable by the foreign
press correspondents through the reg
ular telegraphic channels.
The revolutionists here, however, who
are almost as promptly and fully in
formed as the government, declare the
| trouble to be far from over.
| An official dispatch gives credit to
the statement that machine gun de-
tachments and Cossacks 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, however,
is not due to revolutionary causes, but
to the immemorial hatred that exists
between Armenians and Yartars.
The situation at Shusha has become
so tense that the government divided
the quarters inhabited by the two races
by dead line (which neither faction
was permitted to cross" The Tartars
violated the order not to cross and
commenced a battle.
Use TWenty=one Guns
The garrison interfered when the
combat became general and bombarded
without partially both camps with
twenty-one guns. The town is said to
have been to large extent destroyed.
The Tasting peace" which the two
races are said to be drawing up If
judged by past similar agreements,
will be only hollow truce which neith-
er race has any intention of observing.
The situation at Ti1is is exceedingly
strained.
1t Is said that an armed force will
be used to disperse any gatherings on
the streets without preliminary warn
ing.
A plenary meeting of the st. Peters,
burg council of workmens deputies,
representing 100000 workingmen, was
held today at Tericki, a little town
across the Finnish border which Is now
the Mecca of all opponents of the gov
ernment.
Time Not Ripe for Strike
The members agreed that general
strike, though it must be declared
later, at the present moment would
be untimely. The afternoon was spent
in discussing other measures and an
expression of views as to the attitude
to be taken by the workmen on the
dissolution of parliament.
Many of the delegates favored gi-
gantic one-day strike, but no decision
on this point was reached.
There is more jubilation among the
revolutionists over the escape from
prison at Sebastopol of Samenkoff, who
is believed to have been an accomplice
in the attempt last May on the life of
Gen. Neptueff.
This escape sets at liberty one of
the most dangerous revolutionary or
ganizers In Russia.
Sanenkoff is a leading member of
the central committee of the radical
revolutionists. His friends have stead
fastly maintained that he had no con-
nection with the plot against Gen.
Neptueff and say that the authorities
used his presence in Sebastopol the
day of the attempted assassination as
a pretext to arrest and railroad him to
the ,scaffold.
Opposed to Public Opinion
In addition to putting screws on the
Russian press to prevent the publi-
cation of unfavorable news from the
interior and throwing in the waste
basket of practically all the foreign
press comment on this dissolution of
parliament. the government has shown
itself extremely opposed. to public oplu-
ion abroad and has imposed a strict
censorship on kilograms sent through
the official agency, in order to prevent
as far as possible harsh criticism.
Even the censorship on foreign news
papers. which for number of years
blocked out all articles distasteful to
the government but which was prac-
tically abandoned this year Is being
restored.
"The classic caviar (artices are
blocked out with mixture of caviar,
printers. ink and sand) adorns column
after column of leading foreign perl
odicals now received In Russia.
Perelom says that General Orliff.
"pacifcator'' Of the Baltic provinces,
and Prince Troubetskoy, chief OF the
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