The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-01
NEWS |S HELD UP
 IN ST. PETERSBURG
First Dispatches of Surrender
 Came from Washington
300 KILLED IN RI0TlNG
Double This Number Were Injured During the Frenzied Fighting Be- tween Troops and Work
 men at Odessa.

St. Petersburg, July l, a. m.-The first news from Odessa of the surrender of the kniaz Potemlxine, to Vice Admiral krugers squadron reached here through the Associated Press dispatch. from Washington, conveying the text of a cablegram sent by the American con sul at odessa, MT. Heenan, as with the declaration of martial law, General Ka- benoff had shut down on all dispatches. Even the foreign embassy here was with out advices during the day. The Asso- ciated Press dispatches announcing the surrender of the battleship was help up till 2 o'clock this morning.
 At the admiralty, the Associated Press had been informed yesterday afternoon that the kniaz Potemkine with d mutln- ous crew, probably drunk and without man on board capable of navigating the ship, had weighed anchor and started seaward. The presumption is that the battieship met the squadron before the latter reached the offlng and under the guns of Krugers warsnlps concluded that 1t was better to surrender than to fight. Reports received by the ministry give an entirely different version of the origin of the mutiny which is attributed to deliberate plots organized by twenty sailors belonging to the revolutionary or ganization. These reports placed the number of killed during the rioting on shore at 300 and the wounded at twice that number.
 Martial law has been declared at Sebas- topol and Nicholaff and plenary powers have been entrusted to Vice Admiral Chuknin, commander of the Black sea fleet but beyond the general condition existing in these ports of the Black sea, little or no definite reasons for the de- claration of martial law are known. Cos sip, however, says there has been a mutiny on board the batteship Tshesme at Sebastopol.
 The declaration of martial law in Fri van was inevitable in consequence of the situation in the southern Caucasus dis patches to the Associated Press indicating that Moslems and Armenians were waging what almost might be termed war With the surrender of the Kniaz Po- temkine the immediate danger of the situation seemed to collapse, the five thousand blue jackets at Libau. who fol- lowed the example of their comrades on the rebel battleship, having earlier in the day yielded to the military by whom they were surrounded in a wood near the port after a promise that better food would be given them.
 kronstadt Mutiny Short Lived. 
 What seemed like an extension of the mutiny of the sailors at Kronstadt also proved to be short lived, although all regular workmen in the port are still on strike and reports of coming trouble both there and al St. Petersburg are rife. The strike may extend to the longshoremen of St. Petersburg and the worlmen in several large factories are again active and threaten disorder.
 Late last night q rumor gained cur rency that a mob had sacked the small arms at Kopino. twenty miles distant and was marching on St Petersburg. hut of this rumor the Associated Press has been unable to obtain the slightest corroboration.
 Now that the Knaz Potemkine has sur rendered. it is probable that the govern ment will gradually allow the publica- ton of the details of the mutiny. The censorship this morning merely permit ted the newspapers to print a dispatch which under the circumstances would do credit to a first class humorist. This dispatch read:
 "Odessa. June r COid Style). ''The tranquility of the district having been interrupted martial law has been declared"