TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1497, 4 July 1905, Page 3

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

CONTRADICTORY reports.

By Telegraph —Frets Association— Oopyrlghi Si. Petersburg, July 2.

Tho official accounts of tho events at Odessa are contradictory. Seme stato chat Jhs Knie.z Potempkin surrendered, and that her crew were transferred to other vessels, also that tho Revolutionary Committee ut Odessa were arrested on board. Other narra'ives state that the Kniaz nnd Georgi Pobyadonsteff are sti'-l in the hands of the mutineers, and are threatening to bombard tho city unless tho workpeople 00-opo: ate by means of a genera! jifeko. The rest of the fleet hae apparently sailed for Sebastopol. Ad officer at Kirsk station, in consequence of the inoportinenoe of a drunken soldier, out him dawn with his sword. A mob collected and poured petroleum on the railway oarriage occupied by tho officer, who replied with revolver shots until he | was burned to doath

Cossacks and infantry with machino guns guard Liba. The riotors, with the exception of 200, fled to the forest. The Czar provides funds for General Trepoff’s scheme -o sub-divide Russia into carefully organised police districSs, with enormously increased forces. The panic at Odessa is unabated. The British Consul has ohurlored a vessel to take on board British snbjecta. The conflagration in the town continued until Friday evening. Coast defence batteries are stationed in Odessa streets dominating the harbor.

PREVENTING FURTHER MUTINY. CRUISE OF THE KNIAZ POTEMKiN

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright

Received 9.35 p.m., July 3. Bk. Petersburg, July 8. Arriving at Sevastopol the admirals and Captains held a oooncil aboard the Rostislar, Admiral Kroger presiding. It was resolved to put the machinery of the war* ships out of gear. They authorised the officers and men to go ashore if they desired. The ironclad Catherine 11., lying at Sevastopol, has been disarmed. Many reservist sailors have been granted two months’ leave.

The Kniaz Potemkin sailed away on Saturday. She called at Silioa on Sunday morning and then at Constaga, where Bhe sent a boat a?king tho Roumanian authorities to supply provisions. Hate on Sunday evening Lloyd’s agent telegraphed that the Kniaz Potemkin and torpedoer 257 were anchored off Rusfcendji. Another steamer was apparently watching the offing. A state of siege has been proclaimed at Sevastopol and Nikolaeff. Sevastopol advices ssate that tbe mutineers killed the captain and all tho Kniaz Potemkin's officers except five, mostly engineers. They entrapped the transport Vioha’s captain by signalling him to go aboard the Kniaz Potemkin. Then the Vioha’s crew mutinied.

DEFIANT REPLIES BY MUTINEERS.

* “WE REMAIN HERE.” By Telegraph—Press Association —Gopyrlgh p.m., July 3. ivf&rvii irom . 0 oro Sydney ; pwlf*. Petersburg, July 3. nn and Isaacson (2j. \ r , commanding the Napier—Arrived, i nd Snicpe and Adrom Gisborne. , _ commanding the Arrived. 2.1. 5 biedonostseff, Trisfrom Hobart, with an R tbe torand several torv.AW. NOT Sevastopol, to : * “d, ordering the For Napier, Wellington, an .d, O fleet. Tuesday. July - at 4 P° reAuckland, 'l’alune, Siocortß aboard. sth, at 7 a.m. Koiazpotemkin For Napier. Wellington and S Bteßme a fa 11 Wednesday. July ot °, 4 p .rc £ flge 83ing For Auckland, Mararoa, her Bth. 9 » m - ... - . _ a i n fvn dress, were Wnr Australia (via Wellingtor F Ceylom lndia, Straits Set G the fleet to China, per Zealandia, Wt a, Kuiazpotem--sth. 4p m. . „ . ;hero.” For Anßtralia (due in Syce’ e { the PobiedoTaamania, Ceylon, ana id/ Js sohinery dieSaturday, July Bth. 9 a.rr . C^ t ndi n etcen a rrim“ica itea th ° “ a “ '= tterrEuro^X-P 1 " »‘ n nat“lhide tbe KniazpotomJapan. Connecting ” ; “We wiah to land Auckland, per Tarawe/ . 12, 7 a.m then headea for riouih Africa (due Auoust 6tb), per £ , v BKNOR’3 BE ASSURING ! - MESSAGE.

THREAT TO BOMBARD ODESSA

By Telegmph —Presa Association—Copyright Received 11.9 p.m., Jnly 3. London, July 3. Boater's Odessa correspondent telegraphs that the PobiedonostseQ on Sunday sent, 40 hootogeß ashore. They Bsked the Czar s forgiveness for mutinying, pleading that they had not damaged the ship. The Governor has proclaimed that all danger oi a catastrophe has parsed. He ordered the strikers to resume. The manufacturers are sanguine that the men will resume immediately. _ , Some acoounts state that the Kmaz s crew druuk ali the ehampugno and vodka aboard. . ~ . _ On Saturday the mutinous ships tent a deputation threatening the Governor that they would bombard unless the city capitulated in 48 hours. Civilians were sent away and the garrisooe furbhor strengthened.

RUSSIAN OFFICIAL ME3SAGE,

By Electric Telegraph-Pec Press Association. Received 11.43 p.tn., July 3. London. July 8. Ib is believed that a stuff of civilians representing Ibe revolutionary mgamsation, is directing affairs aboard She IxoiazpoScin- * Tho fleot twice surrounded the Eniazpotcrukio, which passed through tho iron ring unmolested, presumably owing to genoial disaffection in tho flaetc St - . Petersburg, July 3. Official telegrams received hero imply that tho Pooiedonostseff was left to guard and surrendered to the Kai*zpo:emkin. It s also alleged officially that the crow roioled under tbo influence of iiquor.