THE WAR.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42744, 6 July 1905, Page 2

THE WAR.

[united press association by electric telegraph—copyright.]

St Petersburg, July 4. Much indignation is felt among the humble classes in Russia, owing to the fact that while memorial service was held unobtrusively for officers killed at Tshushima, none was held for the men. Work at Odessa has been resumed. Kruger left for Odessa at the instance of the military, who fear , that the troops will revolt in the event of a general mutiny of the, crews of the fleet. Vice-Admiral Chukossian has returned to his command at Odessa from St Petersburg. • Paris, July 4i French advices from St Petersburg state that of the two battleships anchored at Libau, one had mutinied. St Petersburg, July 4. It is officially stated that the crew of the transport Prout mutinied and killed the second j lieutenant and boatswain and had arrested the captain . and officers. The mutineers arrived at Sebastopol repentant and invited the officers to resume command. A Bussian note urged Boumania and Turkey to treat the Kniazpotemkin’s crew as common criminals. There is believed to he 2000 shells and half a million roubles aboard the Kniazpotemkin. London, July 4. Pokotiloff, the Bussian minister at Pekin, who shares Witte’s views, accompanies the pleni- 1 potentates. j