The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-07-31
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| SURPRISING NEWS
| No Details Can be Secured by
The Correspondents of Re-
volt at Poltava@
I"CLASSIC CAVIER" IN USE
ALSO PASS SCRUTINY TO KEEP
UNCOMFORTABLE FACTS FROM
THE PUBLIC.
Publishers Pressl

st. Petersburg, July 30.-No news OF
the formidable revolt at Poltava, which
was first predicted in revolutionary
manifestos in southern Russia, reach
esfthe Russian public through the
press. Dispatches telling of the oc-
currence were suppressed here, and
only scanty details are obtainable by
foreign press correspondents through
the regular telegraphic channels. Rev
olutionists here, however, who are al
most as promptly and fully informed
as the government, declare the trou
BILE to be far from over. An official
despatch gives credit to the state
ment that machine gun detachments
and Cossacks are being used to sup
press 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 Tartars.
In addition to putting the screws on
the Russian press to prevent publica-
ton of unfavorable news from the in
terror and throwing in the waste bas-
ket practically all the foreign press
comment on the dissolution of parlia-
ment, the government shows itself to
be extremely sensitive to public opin-
ion abroad and imposed a strict CEN
sorship on kilograms sent through the
| official agency in order to prevent as
| far as possible harsh criticism. Even
| the censorship on foreign newspapers,
which, for number of years blocked
out all articles distastefui to the gov
| eminent, but which was practically
abandoned this year, is being restored.
''The classic caviar" (articles are
blocked out with mixture Of caviar,
printers ink and sand) obliterates col
umn after column of the leading peri
odicals received in Russia.
Premier Stolypin has not abandon
ed hope of inducing public men out
side of bureaucratic spheres to enter
a reorganized cabinet and carry out
his policy of "strong-handed" reform.
Negotiations with M. Guchkoff, Prince
| Lvoff and Count Heydon, are still in
progress. The final refusal of men en-
| joying the full confidence of conserva-
tive public opinion to cooperate with
the premier would render his task of
even measuyably pacifying the coun-
try almost hopeless.
Premier Stolypin issued a special
circular to governors instructing them
to employ every means to compel the
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we'll as arrearages.
A mob of 1000 workmen completely
Quilted a brewery on the Schlusselburg
road here. Before a detachment of
Cossacks arrived. the mob destroyed
practically everything.
The central committee of the Social
Democrats was hastily summoned
here from the provinces. 1t was for
mally decided to support the action
of the revolutionary groups last week
in pushing the agitation for a general
strike and upnsing. The Social Dem
ocrat central committee in it's resolu.
lions announced that the aim of the
resolution is to secure a constituent
assembly of the Russian people to de
eide on the future form of government.
M. Alladin, who was leader of the
Group of Toll in the outlawed parlia
ment, arrived here from London where
he went to attend the conference OF
the imparliamentary union, but he is
carefully concealing his whereabouts
The last official kilograms from Pol
tava, where serious outbreak oc
Cured, July %, in the first battalion
Of the Sevski regiment, say that order
has been restored but the affair is
still shrouded in considerable mystery
Nevertheless, enough is known to es
tablish the fact that the loyal troops
used machine guns against their mutt
nous comrades which alone is enough
to create a deep impression in the
army generally.