GREAT INDIGNATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7865, 6 July 1905, Page 2

GREAT INDIGNATION.

talus Class Distractions. MILITARY MSSHISFIBP. More Kaval Officers Killed.

St. PETERSBURG, July 1. The Knia/. Potemkin lelt Kustenji in Hie afternoon, ami, it is expected, is returning to Odessa. A battalion of reservists, numbering 1050, at Bielostok, struck, relus■ng tlie food served out. The Moscow Revolutionary Committee lus requested officials on t In; Vistula railways to strike, ami thus prevent mobilisation. Router's Odessa correspondent states that the authorities have ordered a destroyer to attack the Kniaz Potemkin ii she returns. Two torpedoers have arrived and others are expected. The Georgi PobiedonosteK is aground in the,harbour. Most other crew have re-taken the oath of allegiance. Sixty-seven refusing to do so have been imprisoned in the citadel. There is much indignation among the bumble classes of Russia because while memorial services were held unobtrusively for the officers killed at the 'battle o! Tsushima there were none for the men, this being due to the Government's desire to minimise the defeat. Strikers contrast the bad food of Hie soldiers with the chaaipagne suppers of the .officers. Work at Odessa has been resumed. Admiral Kruger left Odessa at the instance of the military, fearing the troops would revolt in the event of a general mutiny of Hie crews. Vice-Admiral Chukssian has returned to his command at Odessa from St. Petersburg. PARIS, July 4. French St. Petersburg advices state that of two battleships, anchored at Lihau, one mutinied. St PETERSHURG, June 4. It is officially stated that the crews of the transport Prout nutin-i-ed and killed the second lieutenant. The boatswain arrested the captain and officers, but when the mutineers arrived at Sevastopol' they were repentant and invited the officers to resume command.

A Russian Note urges Roumania and Turkey to treat the. Kniaz Potemkin's crews as common criminals.