New-York tribune., 1907-06-20
RUSSIA FACING REVOLT.
MOVE FOR GREAT STRIKE
Rail7gay Delegates Dispersed by
COssacks-Sedition in .Armv.

St- PETERSBURG June IS-Two big meetings of
delegates of railway employees were held to-day
at Obochof and LigOvo At the latter place
three hundred representatives e al rhe railways
centring in St. Petersburg met t. discuss the
question Of a political strike Both meetings
We're dispersed by the police and Cossacks.
J. A. Alexinsky, one of the Social Democratic
leaders in the Douma, who attended the London
conference, has arrived here from Switzerland
by way Of Finland. voluntarily facing almost
certain arrest and long Imprisonment. in re-
sponse 10 the call of his party. He crossed the
frontier unnoticed. and thus far has escaped the
attention Of the police. NJ. Alexinsky expects TO
visit the factory districts, addressing secret
meetings and arousing tie enthusiasm of the
workmen. with whom he is immensely popular
FOR a continuance Of the struggle with the gov
eminent. He said to-day that he fully expected
10 be arrested. but that if he could keep out Of
the hands OF the police even for week he
would consider the sacrifice well repaid.
NJ Alexinsky is the exponent of extreme
measures, and his return has greatly strength
ened the movement for a general strike,
garding which the Social Democrats still
undecided. He holds hat the government, by
arresting the Social Democratic representatives,
has declared war on the working classes and
that il is necessary to reply by any at
the disposal Of the proletarat
THE JAlLS ONERCROWDED.
The prisons and detention houses are
crowded with persons arrested IN the Spask dis
trict. Six hundred political prisoners
crowded together some being forced To sleep
outdoors.
The Minister of the Interior is receiving dis
couraging reports on the crops in the south
west. Winter wheat has rotted from the drench-
ing rains and spring wheat has been killed by
the drouth.
The members of the ultra-reactionary party
have begun open intrigue against NJ. Kauff-
man. Minister of Education: NJ. Filossofof, Min
lister Of Commerce. and other Liberal members
Of the Cabinet. Subordinate officials also and
heads Of departments are suspected Of sympa-
ti,izing with the Constitutional Democrats
Premier Stolypin, however is anxious to retain
both of the officials mentioned. II is said that
NJ. Kaufman twice recently offered
sign, but the Emperor expressed his fullest con-
IdenCe in him and wished him to retain his
portfolio
The ''Vudomosti." Of Moscow, the Liberal
gan. has been fined $500 for publishing an arti-
Gle attacking the government. Four other news
papers were fined sums ranging from $3.50 to
500 each, and similar fines have been imposed
on newspapers in Bialystok, Samara, Poltava,
Tiflis and twenty other towns
Thirty leaders of the revolutionary organiza-
ton IN the Dondangen district. the strongest in
the Baltic provinces. have been arrested. The
principal arsenal Of the band. which numbered
four hundred, was discovered In the depths Of
forest, and contained explosives. bombs, many
weapons. quantity OF ammunition and list of
other depots of arms
All the members of the committee Of the
Social Democrats at Ekatertnoslav have been ar
rested and q secret printing Office which they
operated has been seized. The headquarters of
q terrorist organization have been discovered at
Nezhin. Fourteen persons were arrested.
MANY MEN SHOT IN KIEFF IUTINY
Details Of the mutiny Of sappers at KiefF show
that il was suppressed after bloody engage
ment at midnight on June II in which about
seventy men killed wounded.
Eieff is one Of the cities where revolutionary
ideas have made the greatest inroads on the
army, and the revolutionary military organiza-
ton IS most powerful. counting among its mem
bers dozens Of officers. The mutiny was planned
TO coincide with a general political strike, as
reply to the dissolution Of parliament involving
the railroads. telegraphs and malls. In several
Of the southern provinces arrangements for the
strike had been going for months. under the
leadership Of an experienced organizer, NJ Los
kotj who was a member Of the first parliament.
The decision Of the revolutionary staff at ST.
Petersburg TO refrain from demonstrations
disobeyed by the hotheaded sappers. Five hum
dred men a signal left their beds, disarmed
the sentries, hurriedly dressed, obtained posses
sion Of their rifles, broke into the armory, took
loaded cartridges and then marched to the camp
square and fired a volley In the air The officer
duty, Captain Akuloff, out and addressed
the nutineers, urging them to disperse. He then
nutineers TO surrender. On their refusal to do
so Captain Akuof ordered the troops to fire and
fell dead himself at the first Volley.
The fighting continued for several minutes.
Half a dozen soldiers were killed and about
sixty were wounded Finally the mutineers who
had 10 officers, leat~cs and no plans, wavered
and fed. Two hundred and fifty men We're
captured. but 1913 eluded pursuit
The mutiny was arranged by Shefchenko a
revolutionst Of good family, who entered the
army as a volunteer for the purpose of under
comrades. Three bombs found in Shelf
chenkos tent. All the mutineers VIII be tried
by court martial.
The workmen employed in big factory at
Kieff struck after the Inutiny, but they have not
yet been joined by the employees OF other fac
tories
General ssulhomIinOff, the commander of Kieff
IS taking the most energetic measures TO arrest
the fugutives and the leaders OF the movement
Hundreds Of houses have been searchd and
ninety three citizens have been arrested, among
them being officials OF the railways and tele-
graph service and the editors of a newspaper
A number of bombs found Order is
restored, and the city is in the hands Of the
troops
ANOTHER MUTINY AT KALUGA.
Military troubles have also broken out among
the troops Of the Third Infantry Division,
pressed the insurrection in the Baltic provinces
and is regarded as one of the most energetic
officers in the Russian service. left st. Peters
ourg hurriediy last night after the receipt Of n
cipher dispatch TO take charge of the garrison
at kaIuga- No information is yet available e.
gardlng the extent Of the outbreak a strict
censorship on all incoming press dispatches
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