TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1498, 5 July 1905, Page 2

TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.

FURTHER details.

jjv isloctrj* Telegraph — Por. Preiss Association —CopyrightLONDON, July, 3, The Standard’s Odessa correspondent says that when Admiral Krugen surrounded tho mutineers on Fridaythe Kiriaz. potempkin kept the rc“ liar living, and manned every fldn. rend}, to fire if KrUger gave the OCdejs to lire. ' Apparently Urn sullen demeanor- or his crews induced caution on fika Admiral's part. Ten thousand pooole ashore watched the spectacle, anticipating a genera. massacre of tho officers of the fleet if a shot .was fired at the Kniaz Fotempkin. The Pobiodonostefi is lying in the inner harbor of Odessa, under heavy guns mounted on the boulevar-ds-Fxort. the outset a number of the crew were reluctant to mutiny, anti gradually the number increased. untiL it was resolved to hand tho authorities the breech-blocks of the guns, ana the flags, and to negotiate for surrender, promising to obey if tfao .officers returned. The mutineers on Friday sene a telegram ashore, addressed to tho Czai demanding a constitution under threat,, but the telegram was not forwarded. Generals Alexis and ignatieffi are proceeding to Odessa with lixtxa.or4Lnary, powers. There is a general strike at fc>t« Petersburg. Mobilisation in the cityi liar; bed* suspertbs'dThe promulgation of Ruilguinc’s sclifime has been postponed for » fert flight. Increased wages have pacified the. Kronstadt strikers!.

lijmage to tbe extent of seven million pounds was dons at Odessa. Tne inhabitants are in a frenzy fit the military violenceI’, lias been ascertained that 18QQ were killed and 3006 wounded on Wednesday, the majority succumbing —in £ chine gu,ns were used against, the crowd.

One hundred and twenty men and women drank stolen spirits and fall asloep on a coal heap. Machine guns riddlec them to death. Another instance is recorded where two hundred fugitives were slaughtered instead of being arrested. There are 43,000 troops in Odessa. Tht rebels axe in constant communication with the Kniaz Potemkijj.

Sixty-five of the latter's crew were wounded in an internecine feud on board the vessel on Saturday. ' Th* Kniaz Potemkin seized.'another Russian collier with two. Thousand tons of coalThe captain of the' Pobledonostafl ccmndtted suicide. The crew landed the officers in the vicinity of Odessa* Roumamla wishes to treat the crew of the Kniaz Potemkin as’foreign deserters. ordering them to land without arms.

A party wasi allowed to land, at Kustendjf for nrovisious. ■ The crew of the Russian gufiboaf IFrezyape. were also at Kusleridji fraternising with the mutineers.

THE MUTINEERS IN NEED OF ' PROVISIONS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 9.50 p.m.’, July 4.

St. Petersburg, Jnly 4. The Roumanian Government directed the commandant at Knstenji so refuse coal and provis ons, but to allow the mntineeri liberty if they landed unarmed, delivering np the battleship and torpedoer. The mutineers refused. The torpedoer trying to enter the port the cruiser Elizabeths fired harmlessly. The Russian then rs tired.

A deserting mutineer, who escaped at Knstenji, declares than the Kniazpotemkia was almost provisionless for three day/i. Two-thirds favored landing at Rcrumania, but the rest wished to return to Odessa and renew the bombardment until supplied with provisions. The Kaiazpotemkin’s crew admit that the revolutionary committee arranged tbe mutiny. The murder of Omelchuk wet only a pretext. i

MUTINOUS SAILORS AND SOLDIERS.

MURDER OF OFFICERS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 10.25 p.m., July 5.

St. Petersburg, July 4. The orew of the cruiser Minins,' at Kronstadt, refused to proceed to sea, alleging uhat she was nnseawortby ana. the gunnery practice unsafe- The ringleaders were arrested.

. Odessa is quiet. Work has been resumed in some factories.

Torpedo destroyers at Amyethivi volunteered to find and sink the Kniaz Potemkin.

While disciplinary battalions were exercising at Kherson the soldiers attacked and slightly wennded Captain Goegorodsky with their bayonets. Davydorf, the battalion oommander, drew his sword and rushed to the rescue. Although he received five wounds and was drenched with blood he indnoed the battalions to return to the barracks. He wrote a letter to the Czar and then expired. Eight murderers escaped. Eventually seven weae caught.

BRITISH STEAMER SEARCHED. BOMBS NEAR TSABEOESELO.

3y lolegra. . —Press Association—© pyrlght Received 16.36 y.rr,.. Yaiy

... St. Petersburg, July 4. A destroyer at Odessa .detained and searched the British steamer Cranley wrongly suspecting that revolutionists were 0 m, oatd ’. vess el was released. oi„? i ! 0 _ poJ ,' es - :3c =versd in. a house near -car-rocselo, tenanted by a Government amp.oye and student, eight completed bombs, twenty-two unfinished bombs, and hity canisters of explosives. The oecunauts were arrested. *