CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3541, 1 July 1905, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

Mutiny and Murder FRESH HORRORS AT ODESSA. BATTLESHIP’S CREW TAKE CHARGE OF AFFAIRS, Whilst the Russian battleship Kniaz Potemkin was voyaging trom Sebasto'pol to Odessa .with two torpedo boats a seaman complained *0 a*a officer of bad food being served The officer thereupon shot the man dead. The crew rose and killed ail the officers but eight, who joined them. The seaman’s body was landed at. Odessa, where the crew hoisted a red flag, warned the authorities not to interfere, and compelled a cessation of work among the shipping in the harbour and roadstead, several crews mutinying. Hundreds of dockers and strikers, with bare heads, viewed the dead, seaman’s body, to the breast of wGich was pinned an inscription: Died for telling the truth.” In spite of the telegraphed invocations of the Mayor (who was absent at Moscow) crowds of the populace of Odessa joined in the disturbances, and during the night shipping in the harbour was fired, and much damage done ashore. The Czar and the Government were denounced by the rioting crowds iu the sheets. The situation has assumed a critical aspect, as it is feaied that all <*f the men of the Black Sea Fleet mhy join in the outbreak. The Kniaz Potemkin’s crew seized a Collier and transferred a quantity qf coal to the warship.