New-York tribune., 1906-06-14
ARMY AIDING REVOLT.
NANY RUSSIAN MUTINIES.
alarm in Court Circles OUer Spread
of Revolutionary Ideas.

G. Petersburg June IA sign of the gov
e-nment's inability to cope with agrar1an dis
orders IS the news which comes from Poltava-
one Of the richest and most populous farming
rro5inces of Russia that the Governor is In
daily receipt Of requests for troopsffor the pro-
lection Of estates from the peasants. who have
NOT the slightest awe of the rural guards The
Governor viii be unable TO comply with these
requests because the local troops. one regiment
Of which Inutinied on Sunday last are so in
fectea with the revolutionary spirit that detach-
mens sent 20 the villages Immediately frater-
uized with the peasants. The Governor has
asked the St. Petersburg authorities 10 send him
fresh troops.
Conditions similar to those in Poltava prob
ably are widespread. The army is a frail reed
for the government TO lean If Il rejects par
h2uent's- -agrariaa scheme. The General StafI
objects TO furnishing further troops for police
duty and has refused requests for guards for
gJyernment liquor shops. which are being fire.
cuently attacked. the ground that TO comply
with all these demands would interfere with the
strategic necessity Of the empire
The Emperor and the court understood
TO be much alarmed at this recrudescence or
mutnous spirit Reports received by the Min
lister Of War indicate that the revolutionists
are directing all their energies to spread the
movement in the army. The Twentieth Cen
tury" formerly the Russ" says that in order
70 meet the danger in this quarter when the
government declares the parliamentary recess
on June 2S it win proclaim al the districts
where the fidelity of the troops is shaken TO be
under martial law
Generals KauIbars of Odessa, and Soukhom-
Anof Of Kief. will start tomorrow. accom-
panied by large stats. trips of inspection OF
ne gsrrlsons in the southern and southwestern
provinces where mutinies are reported among
many regiments. The discomfort. according to
Independent testimony. is purely political.
The League og Military degeneration. COM
posed principally of Guards officers. has been
founded here. The members pledge fidelity TO
the orders OF the Emperor. A Cossack officer
Of the imperial escort, at the initial meeting Of
The league declared that the army must pro-
iect his majesty against his enemies at home
and sabre everybody who opposed the EN-
perors will
The "Rech.' organ of the Constitutional Dem
ocratE, appeals to all friends of freedom not to
60 TOO fast, saying:
We must carry the government by siege and
hoi by assault. The fate of the attempt TO set
up republic in the Baltic provinces without
ne power 10 support IL proves the futility OF
mere paper declaration Of the assumption oil
power Il is too early yet 10 give the masses
ne WORD 10 advance
Two PEASANTS OF Samara Province have ar
nved IN 81. Petersburg emissaries to ascer'
tain whether run1ors that all the members Of
parliament had been imprisoned and that sew
erel o. them hadsbeen executed were correct.
Two daily newspaper organs of the Revolu
uonsTy Socialists, the 'Narodny Vestnik' anc
ne "lsFestis.' edited by members of pariia
hert, which have been virulently attacking
par.isUent as well as the government, were sup
Pressed to-day The lest issue of the "Naroqn!
Fesinik' fives statistics Of General TrepoH
feacuonagy party in the Council of the Empire
Which. IL says. is composed of three princes
iour counts. three baroas, twenty-four ex-goV'
snor generals, governors and other high oni'
Sas. and one metropolitan who together draw
Hom the government over s500o00 In salaries
Al these reacHonists own immense estates. tina
VI ~ Pooftsef being the largest 100000 acres
while N. Be!sshof has $4,000 acres and Coun
he1s Ignst.eH. in spite Of a recent sale or S2O
VN acres. is sau a great land holder Genera
tfepoT5 party AZ court, according TO the san'
paper, is composed almost exclusively Of TIT
sest ieud owning nobies.