The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-30
Dispatches Are Suppressed at
St Petersburg
REVOLUTIONISTS INFORMED
Situation in Many Places in Russian
Empire is. Becoming Very Tense
and Outbreaks are Con-
stantly Reported.

st, Petersburg, July 29.--No news of the
revolutionary manifestos in southern
Russia viii reach the Russian public
through the press tomorrow. Dispatches
of the occurrence have been suppressed
here and only scanty details are obtain
able by the foreign press correspondents
through the regular telegraphic chan
nels. The revolutlonists here. however,
who are almost as fully informed as the
government, predict the trouble to be far
from over. Until official dispatches give
the statement that machine gun detach-
ments and Cossacks are being used to
suppress the mutinous battalion.
There is the same pauclty of details re-
garding the outbreak at shusha. in the
Caucasus. This, however, is not due to
revolutionary causes, but to the immortal
hatred that exists between Armenians and
Tartars.
The situation at Shusha had become 50
tense that the governor divided the quar-
ters inhabited by the two races by a
dead line" which neither faction was
permitted to cross The Tartars violated
The order and commenced battle. The
garrison interfered when the combat be-
came general and hombarded without
partiality both camps with twenty-one
guns The town is said to have been to
a large extent destroyed. The Tasting
peace which the two races are said to
be drawing up, If judged by the past sim
liar agreements, Will be only a hollow
truce, which neither race has any inten-
tion Of observing.
Situation at Tifs.
The situation at Tinis also is exceeding
ly strained. The viceroy had prohibited
demonstrations or meetings or even the
promenadlng Of groups of persons on the
principal thoroughfares of the city. 1t is
announced that arrnad forces eill be used
l-tc dispell any such gatherings without
further preliminary warning.
A penary meeting of the St. Petersburg
Council of Workmen's deputies represent
ing 10000 men, was held today at Tere-
kio, little town across the Finnish bor-
der, which is now the mecca of all oppo-
nents of the government The members
agreed that a general strike. though IL
must be declared later. at the present mo-
ment would be untimey, the afternoon
was spent in discussing other measures
and an expression of views as to the at
titude to be taken by the workmen on the
dissolution of Parliament. Many of the
delegation favored a 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 Sebastopol of Samenkoff. who is be-
lieved to have been an accomplice in the
attempt last May ON the life of General
Neplueff.
samenkoff Escapes.
boc
the most dangerous revolutionary organ
izers in Russia. Samenkoff is a leading
member of the central committee of the
social revolutionists. His friends have
steadfastly maintained that he had no
connection with the plot against General
Neplueff 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 scaf-
fold
In addition to putting the screws on the
Russian press in the event of unfavora-
BILE news from the interior and throwing
In the waste basket practically all the
foreign press comment on the dissolution
of parliament, the government has shown
itself to be extremely sensitive to public
opinion abroad and has imposed strict
censorship on kilograms sent through the
official agency In order to prevent, as far
as possible, harsh criticisms. Even the
censorship on foreign newspapers which
for number of years blocked out all ar
ticles distasteful to the government, but
which was practically abandoned this year
is being restored. The Classic Caviar (ar-
ticles are blocked out with a mixture OF
caviar printers ink and sand) adorns
column after column of the leading peri
odicals now received In Russia
Perelon says that General Orloff, '.paci-
ficator' of the Baltic provinces and
Prince Troubetskoy chief of the imperial
escort, are now the personal favorites of
the Emperor and exert great influence
over him.