The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-30
ruBLIc woNT HEAR.

Government Keeps News ok Poftnvn Be~
 vof3 i'm Dark.
 St. Petersburg. July 2s.--No news Of the formidable revolt at Pnltava which was first predicted in revolutionary manifestoes in southern Russia will reach the Russian public through the press tomorrow.
 Dispatches of the occurrence have
 been suppressed here and only scarity
 details are obtainable by the foreign press correspondents through the reg ular teiegraphic channels. The revolu- tionists here, however. who are almost
 as fully informed as the Government | predict The trouble to be far from over. Unofficial dispatches gives 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, ln the Caucasus. This. however. is not due to revolutionary causes, but to the immoral hatred that exists between Arr menians and Tartars.
 The situation at Shusha had become so tense that the Governor divided the quarter inhabited by the two races by dead 1ine'' which neither faction waa permitted to cross. The Tartars yio- lated the order and commenced bat- 1 tie The garrison interfeFed when the combat became general and bombarded without partiality both camps, with twelty-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 hollow truce, which neither | race has any intention of observing.
 The situation at Tifiis also Is exceed- | ingly strained. The vicercy has pro- hiblted demonstrations or meetings or even the promenading of groups of per sons on the principal thoroughfares of the city. It is announced that armed forces will be used to disperse any such gatherings without further preliminary warning.
 A pIenary meeting of the St. Pe- 1 tersburg Council of Worwmen's depu-
 ties, representing 130.000 men, was held today at Terekio, a little town across the Finnish border, which is now the
 mecca of all opponents of the Govern
 ment The members agreed that a general strike, though it muat be de- ciared later. at the present moment
 would be untimely. the afternoon was spent in discussing other measures and
 an expression of views as 10 the atts- ture to be taken by the workmen on
 the dissolution of Parliament Many
 of the delegates favored gigantic one
 day strike but no decision on this point
 was reached
 There is much jubilation among the
 revolutionists over the escape from
 prison at SebastopoI of Samenkoff, who is believed to have been an accomplice
 in the attempt last May on the life or
 General Napulef.
 This escape has set at liberty one
 of the most dangerous revolutionary organizers in Russia. samenkoff is a leading member Of the central commtt-
 tee or the Social Revolutionists. His
 friends have steadfastly maintained
 that he had no connection with the
 pict against General Eeptueff, and say
 that .he authorities used his presence
 in sebastopol the day of the attempted assassination as @ pretext to arrest and railroad him to the scafFold.
 In addition to putting the screws on the Russian press in the event of un- favorable news from the interior and throwing in the waste basket practical- ly all the foreign press comment on the dissolution of Parliament the Gov ernJnent has shown itself to be extreme Iy sensitive to public opinion abroad and has imposed strict censorship on | teIeRrams sent through the official agency in order to prevent. as far as | possible harsh criticisms.
 Even the censorship on foreign news papers which for number of yeara ] blocked out all articles distastefui to the Government but which was practi- cally abandoned this year. ia being re-
 stored.