DISMISSAL OF DOCK LABOURERS.
INSUBORDINATION OF SAILORS. PLOT TO DESTROY BLACK SEA FLEET. Received January 8, 8.56 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, January 8. The recent dismissal of 8,000 dock labourers created great insubordination amongst the sailors at Sevastopol. In order to prevent an outbreak,, the Black Sea fleet was sent to sea. When the sailors in the barracks were searched a list was found dividing the officers into three categories with varying degrees of punishment. One hundred powerful pyroxiline bombs were discovered at Sevastopol and Simferopol, a town in Crimea, and are believed to have been designed to destroy the fleet
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9023, 9 January 1908, Page 5
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100DISMISSAL OF DOCK LABOURERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9023, 9 January 1908, Page 5
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