The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-30
s. SHIPS BURNED.
Five Hundred Rioters Have Been
Killed at Odessa.
Four Thousand Mutineers Are
Surrounded at Libau.
NO SERIOUS DAMAGE
Was Done by the Kniaz Potem-
kine's BOmbardment.
The Gar Has Declared War
Along the Black Sea.

Odessa, June 3O.-Up to the present
time nine ships have been burned.
st. Petersburg, June Soils a. ma
dispatch fled at Odessa last evening at
1880 o'clock and received here this morn
/ ing, says the battleship Kniaz Potem-
kline was then opening fire upon the
shore
Six officers Of the battleship were
murdered by the mutineers, eight have
been liberated and the remainder are
prisoners on board.
Five hundred rioters have been killed.
Mutineers Surrounded.
Libau, June 30-About four thousand
mutinous sailors are surrounded in
small wood near the port by infantry
and reinforced by machine guns. One
thousand of the mutineers already have
surrendered and given up their arms.
The mutiny started Tuesday night
when the sailors of the first equipage,
as the national units are known in Rus
sia, revolted because the food was bad.
They were Joined Immediately by the
sixth, nintn and fifteenth cquipages-
5000 bluejackets in all
The guard at first tried to oppose
| them. killing one and wounding seven,
but the sailors got the upper hand.
/ They seized the guard houses, broke
open stores, securing arms and ammuni-
| ton. The mutineers wrecked the bar
racks, attacked the quarters Of the Off
GERS and fired vOlleyS at random until
/ morning. The city was terrorized when
troops and artillery arrived Wednesday
morning. All entrances to the city WeI
| closed and gradually the sailors were
/ driven into the wood which they have
since held.
Much firing mingled with. the hum
ming of machine guns has been heard
| but everyone is forced by the police to
! keep off the streets and away from the
/ ports some distance below town. Moth
ing is definitely known except that 1000
mutineers have surrendered
The revolutionary agents have
seized the opportunity to distribute
proclamations from house to house.
Murdered In His Home.
Vienna June 30."A dispatch re-
! ceived at Bucharest from Kishinem says
i General CzernotucHi, chief of the Bes-
/ sara bian gendarmie, has been found
! murdered in his residence at Kishinen-
A general strike has broken out at
Nishineff. The town is occupied by
/ Cossacks.
Bornbardment Not Serious.
London, June 3o-A dispatch from
Odessa to Lloyds dated today says the
| city is quiet.
Three steamers of the Russian
| transport company have been burned
and the thoroughfares leading to the
i ports are closed.
A telegram sent from odessa at
! 1903 o'clock this morning to a ship
! owner, says the bombardment which
/ commenced yesterday evening was not
serious renewal was threatened
this morning.
Another telegram sent at 1884 a.
M. says the British ships are thus
far safe.
Town Turned Into a Camp.
St. Petersburg. June 30.-The strike
lot
| continues. The town resembles a mill
/ tary camp. Infantry and cavalry are
/ qTartered in the houses and court
yards and are bivouacking in the
streets. The governor of the province
has arrived at Voznesensk, from Vlad-
imir. capital of the province
The Gar Declares War
st. Petersburg, June 3O.-The en-
Deror has issued the following ukase
addressed to the ruling senate:
/ In order to guarantee public safe
| ty and to terminate the disorders at
Odessa and neighboring localities, we
have found 1t necessary to declare a
state of war in Odessa and to invest
| the commander of the troops in the
military district of Odessa, with the
rights of military authority and spec
iaI rights of civil administration for
| the defense of order and public tran
guilty"
Crisis in Russian Affairs.
st. Petersburg, June 3O.-Not since
/ the inSurrection in December, 1925,
/ when a portion of the guard regiments
Joined in an attempt to set up repub-
1 lie in Russia has the situation of the
been so serious. Nevertheless the
crisis may be passed in few days.
/ Either the open revolt will by that
/ time be stamped out or the flames will
/ have spread possibly beyond the hope
/ of control At the admiralty it is said
/ that Rear Admiral Kruger's squadron
/ is expected to arrive at Odessa during
| the day. No explanation is offereS for
the delay of the SQuadrOn's sailing
/ from SevastOpol.
/ 1t is admitted, although great retic-
ence is manifested, that at 9 o'clock last
night the Kniaz Potemkine was firing
I upon the city. The admiralty thinks
the nutinOuS crew were probably drunk
4 The officials consider it possible that
! the crew were supporting the strikers and
revOlutiOnists ashore against the troops.
/ Throughout the day the soldiers and
/ police had evidently refraiued from at
1 tempting to interfere with the strikers
/ under the threats Of the mutineers of
! the battleship to use their guns against
/ them. Although it is possible acqui-
/ cscence of the soldiers was due to fear
the authorities think they are unrelia-
| bic and a regiment Of dragons and a
/ brigade Of artillery have been sent tc
/ Odessa from Kherson.
| These troops should have arrived at
/ Odessa this morning. With these re-
Inducements and the city under martial
/ law it is believed the military governor
/ viii be strong enough to attempt to
suppress the rioters by force. The plan
| is believed to be for the troops to crush
the disorders IN the city while Kruger's
| squadron holds the entrance of the har-
| Dor. It is apparently questionable
whether Kruger viii engage the Kniaz
! Potemkine if she refuses to surrender
as firing upon the vessel might be too
dangerous a test for the sailors on
ri his
/ volve necessarily the destruction of the