Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-11-29
FLEET JOINS REVOLT
Mutineers Take Officer From Prison to Command Them.
RANK AND FILE OF ARMY IS ROTTEN
Manchurian Forces In Open Rebel- Iion-Fight Expected at seyasto- pol, Where Sailors Play
 Waiting Game.


 ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 29 - The entire fleet at Sevastopol has joined the mutineers ashore in their revolt. The sailors have liberated Lieutenant Schmidt, an officer of the Black sea squadron, who was in prison awaiting trial for placing wreaths on the graves of the mutineers killed last July. | Schmidt went aboard the cruiser Ot- chakoff and assumed command of the squadron.
 The governor ordered the squadron | to leave the harbor Schmidt refused to obey and notified the governor that if any of the sailors under arrest were placed before a court martial the war ship would lombard the town. A later report says that the sailors at Sevastopol have riassacred all their officers.
 According to a private telegram from an eminently trustworthy source in Sc vastopol the rebels are so completely masters of the situation that the gov ernment will be compelled to accede to all their demands.
 The rebellious sailors are playing a waiting game and apparently have full confidence that the guns of the feet will not be turned against them. If they have not actually disregarded the summons to haul down the red flag | they seem determined to make the au- thorities show their hands. l The staff quarters at Sevastopol are guarded by Cossacks, and the officers in the streets are accompanied by es- corts of Cossacks, the only branch of the service the fidelity of which is ab- solutely unprecedented.
 A dispatch from Moscow says that the garrison there is disaffected. The strikes continue.
 It is consistently rumored that Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch will be appointed regent in view of the czar's alleged intention to go abroad. The soldiers attached to the Military School of Electricity here have been arrested by four battalions of the Paw lovsky regiment and taken to the fortress Sts Peter and Paul. Autocracy early this morning began it's death struggle with revolution by hurling such regiments as remained loyal to 1t against the mutinous regi- ments intrenched in the school The attack developed into battle that showed not only the preparedness of the insurgents, but their determination to withstand tyranny at all points and to shoot down their own comrades If those comrades remained the lackeys oi the bureaucrats. Six regiments of Cos sacks and other guards were employed in the assault. The mutineers were driven from another of the buildings by the concentrated fire of five or six Cos sack ahorse batteriese end all were cap tured.
 A note of popular joy rises at tht news that the notorious General Ire poff has been requested to take a triI abroad.
 Professor Hodsky. editor of the Ma sha Shisn, called upon the premier tt demand permission for Father Gapor to return to Russia. "What Is the us' of deception among friends" sait Count Witte to the professor. "Yor and know, even if the police do not that Father Gapon has been living 1T your house since Aug. 13." The military officers at St. Peters
 burg admit that no reliance can b. placed on the line regiments, not ever on those now stationed in the capital , The spirit of revolt pervades the whol' army from vladlvostok to the Euro , pean frontier, and the Manchurial forces are almost openly revolting.
 The state of affairs at Sevastopol , Odessa, Simferopol and Ti6is show 1 that the revolutionary spirit has spread to southern Russia and Transcaucasia