The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-07-08
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| believed the military Governor will be
strong enough to attempt to suppress
the rioters by force. The plan is be-
| lieved to be for the troops to crush
| the disorders in the city while Kru-
gers squadron holds the entrance of
| the harbor. It is apparently ques-
| tionabIe whether Kruger Will engage
the Kniaz Potemkin if she refuses to
surrender, as firing up the vessel
might be too dangerous test for the
sailors on board his ships. Beside it
would involve necessarily the de-
| struction of the battleship costing sew
eral millions and damage to the city.
Admiral SkrydIoff's plan of starving
to be followed.
| At Libau the mutinous sailors to the
number of about 5000 were finally cor
rallied by troops and artillery in
wood near the port and by this morn
ing a thousand of them had already
surrendered. Their comrades possibly
will be starved out Whether there
was any great loss of life is as yet
unknown.
Great precautions are being taken to
prevent the possible spreading of the
mutiny to the sailors of ST. Peters
burg and Cronstadt.
ODESSA BLOCKADED.
| LONDON, June 30.--A dispatch to the
Evening Standard from Odessa today
says:
Since midnight the Russian battleship
XMAS Potemkin has established a
blockade of this port in regard to all
steamers flying the Russian flag. Not
one is allowed to enter or depart. Six
of these steamers are now anchored in
the roads under the battleship's guns.
The port thus is in the extraordinary
position of being blockaded on the sea
by a mutinous warship and the land
side is impossible owing to a military
Gordon which seals up every approach
to the harbor, meeting at Libau.
MUTINY AT LIBAU.
LIBAU, June Boa mutiny started
Wednesday night when the sailors of
the first equipage, as the national units
are known in Russia, revolted because
the food was bad. They were Joined
Immediately by the Sixth, Ninth, Thir-
lteenth and Fifteenth Equipages-5,000
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 houses, broke open
stores, securing arms and ammunition.
Pandemonium followed throughout
the night. The mutineers wrecked the
barracks, attacked the quarters of the
officers and fired volleys at random
] until morning. The city was terrorized
, when troops and artillery arrived We'd
nesday morning. ALI entrances to the
city were closed and gradually the
sailors were driven into the wood,
which they have since held.
r 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.
0 Nothing is definitely known except that
6 LOCO mutineers have surrendered.
The revolutionary agents have seized
. the opportunity to distribute proclama-
d lions from house to house.
d TROUBLE AT CRONSTADT.
f ST. PETERSBURG, June 80, 1925 p.
e ma sensational report is current that
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workmen at the yards and docks of the
u naval port of Cronstadt. have suddenly
: refused to work and that practically a
e state of mutiny exists there.
d ST. PETERSBURG, June 80, Ass p.
m.-The mutiny of sailors at Cronstadt
is confirmed. One officer was killed.
{ The situation was reflected by an all
l. around slump on the Bourse today. I'M
h perial As We're sustained by the Gov
4 eminent, but, nevertheless, they fell al
d, most a point.
THE PRESS MUZZLED.
ST. PETERSBURG, June 3O.-The
1 newspapers are not allowed to print a
n word of the official dispatches regard
n ing the revolt of the sailors, but several
!. of them in a roundabout fashion have
:. succeeded in limiting at startling de-
velopments.
II The Novoe Vremya with seeming in
Ie nocence announced that the Viedomosk
Gradonatshalstwa Gazette of the Pre-
), fecture), of Odessa, has requested the
inhabitants of that city to keep off the
- streets so as to avoid accidents wher
le the troops are firing. Other papers re-
lie mark upon the massing of troops If