The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-08-03
MACHINE GUNS
USED ON REBELS
WHOLE RUSS BATTALION MUTT
MES BECAUSE PRIVATE IS
ARRESTED.
REVOLT IS FORMIDABLE ONE
SITUATION IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA
is BECOMING VERY MUCH
STRAINED.
REVOLT IS FORMIDABLE one

FOlLdVa, RUSSIA, July ol.-A grave
outbreak occurred yesterday in the
Sevski regiment, following the arrest
OF private OF the First battalion,
who was discovered with some other
soldiers in a shed where the revolu-
tionists are in the habit of holding
meetings. After the arrest the entire
First battalion, accompanied by a
large crowd, paraded the streets in de-
f1ance of the military authorities. The
soldiers proceeded to the artillery bar
racks, where they
Seized Several Guns
and marched with them to the prison
where the poliaical prisoners are con-
fined. At this stage the rest of Polta-
va garrison was called out. The loyal
troops fired on the mutineers with
machine guns as they were engaged IL.
breaking down the gates of the prison
Several men were killed or wounded.
The outbreak was not suppressed un-
til in the morning.
Suppress News of Revolt.
St. Petersburg, July 31.-No news
Of the formidable revolt at Poltava
will reach the Russian public through
the press to-day. Dispatches of the
occurrence have been suppressed here
and only scanty details are obtainable
by the foreign press correspondents
throughout the regular telegraphic
channels. The revolutionists here,
however, who are almost as promptly
and fully informed as the government,
declare the trouble to be far from
over. An official dispatch gives credit
to the statement that many Cossacks
are being used to suppress the mutt
nous battalion.
Situation Is Tense.
There is the same paucity of details
regarding the outbreak at Shusha, in
the Caucasus. The outbreak, how
ever. is not due to revolutionary
causes, but to the immemorial hatred
that exists between Armenians and
Tartars.
The siuation at Shusha had become
90 tense that the governor divided the
quarters inhabited by the two races by
. dead line, which neither faction was
permitted to cross. The Tartars vio-
lated the order not to cross, and COM
menced battle. The garrison inter-
fered, when the combat became gen.
eral, and bombarded without partiality
both camps with twenty-one guns
The town is said to have been to a
large extent destroyed.
"The lasting peace" which the two
races are said to be drawing up, If
Judged by past similar agreements,
will be only a hollow truce which nei-
ther race has any intention of observ-
ing.
Exceedingly Strained.
The situation at Tiflis also is exceed
ingly strained. The viceroy has pro.
hibited demonstrations or meetings or
even the promenading of groups OF
persons on the principal thorough
fares Of the city. 1t is announced that
armed force will be used to disperse
any such gatherings without farther
preliminary warning.
A plenary meeting of the st. Peters
burg council of workmen's deputies,
representing 10000 workingmen, was
held yesterday at Tericki, little town
across the Finnish border, which is
now the Mecca of all opponents of the
government. The members agreed
that general strike, thought it must
be declared later, at the present mo-
ment would be untimely.
Trepoff Killed?
st. Petersburg, July 31.-A rumor
reached the Associated Press at late
hour tonight that Gen. Trepon had
been killed. It could not be confirm
ed, but probably Is revival of the
false rumor current last week.