The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-01
ARMY CzAR'S CHIEF WORRY.
DniFFECTTON IN THE RANKS
SPREADS RAPIDLY.
per,ment Taken q TamboT ia. Fire on the
People Fires Instead on the Police
Troops at Odessa Appeal Direct to
4, uuma to Investigate Their Grievances.

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Troops at Odessa Appeal Direct to
Duma to Investigate Their Grievances.
Special Cabls Despatch 10 THE SUN.
or. PETERSBURG, June 9o.-The last and
most fatal symptom Of the approaching
rsvolution has peer developing In the last
fsw DAYS with surprising rapldity. The
breakdown OF military disci pline throughout
tbe empire has produce among the Gov
srnment the same CONSERVATION that the
inmates of a burning house might feel when
a Are escap is found to be useless. The
.snse Of despair which 10 gathering around
peterhof deepens as each day brings fresh
evidence OF the extent to which socialism
n sinyaded the rank and file of the army. =.
No plot against the dynasty is traceable,
nor ia there any movement an ong military
sodeties against the Duma. There 10 album
dant proof, on the other hand, that Socialist
agents nave made great progress in edu-
eating peasant conscipts to the frame Of
mind which made last winters general
strike Of the working populati on possible.
Themiltary police arenowangrily stamp
ing out the movement wherever 1t is de-
teced in the vest line OF barracks which
ssparates Peterhof on the landward side
from the capital. A gang Of these men
threw three engineers employed in the
workshop Of the artillery school at Kras-
noye-Selo into the lake yesterday because
they we're agitating socialism among the
troops who were learning gunnery. When
they we're nearly drowned the men were
drawn out of the lake and imprisoned.
Two other victims were musicians who
began the propaganda in the first battalion
OF the PROBATIONARY regiment. They
are highly certified graduates Of the st.
Petersburg Conservatoire and members
OF the finest military band in the empire.
It is known that the medical corps hospital
orderlies are actively helping this move
ment to make the army a weapon which
will henoeforth refuse to strike at the
Russian people. The greatest success they
have achieved as yet was at TambofY,
where a regiment which was brought into
the town to fire on q crowd fired instead
on the police.
The immediate effect Of all this Is to
make the Government really eager to cling
to the Duma, despite appearances to the
contrary. 1t may go even some way
toward accepting the Dumas report on
the massacre at Bielostok and placing the
officers accused therein on trial.
The troops Of the Odessa garrison rave
adopted a petition to the Duma asking it
to send a delegation Of its members to
examine on the spot the grievances Of all
branches of the service. The petition Is
addressed to the Labor party Of the Duma
and declares adhesion to its democratic
demands.
Troops from Kars and .Tifis have been
sent to Batoum, where the mutiny con-
tinues.
At the Mojaisk camp, near Moscow, a
meeting was held yesterday, which was at
tended by troops Of all arms. The artillery
was strongly represented, and after the
meeting the mon tool possession Of several
field pieces and fired them OF. The military
authorities have ordered the artillery trans
ferred to Smolensk.
Col. Larionoff Of the Bolehoff Regiment,
which mutinied at Riazan, has peer CASH
tered.
The Governor-G General at Tekek has
ordered the disbandment Of the troops at
Vladikavkez, who fred into a hall where
the officers were holding a dance.
The authorities recently sent an infantry
regiment against the Tenth Cossacks, who
were In q state Of mutiny at Orenburg.
The two regiments got together and agreed
not to use arms against each other.
The Cossaok regiment at Eysk has asked
the Minister Of Wal to disband the men be-
longing to the third class, because. they are
required in the villages, where agricultural
operations cannot be carried on owing to
the lack Of farm labor.
M. Muromtzef, President Of the Duma;
received a telegram to-day stating that
serious disorders AVE broken out in the
district OF Epifan, in the Government of
Tula, south Of Moscow.