Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-26

lack of good officers is frankly given by one
Of the highest officials of the naval staff rs
the principal and underlying reason for the
conditions in the Euxine fleet. As at Cron-
stadt practically all the good officers were
drafted for service with the fleets In the far
east during the war and the force OF COM
missioned officers at Sebastopol is now
only about one officer to over 400 men, and
many Of these are utterly incapable. The
revolt of the Brest regiment is one of the
most serious features OF the situation. 1t is
the first time an infantry regiment as a
whole has mutinied, and the question on
the lips of every one In the capital is how
long it will be before It is followed by
others, perhaps, even the st. Petersburg
garrison.
Special Laws Denounced.
The League of Leagues has adopted an
other set of resolutions, demanding the
complete obiteration Of all special laws and
concluding with demand for the abolition
of the Schlusselburg fortress as a political
prison.
The radical papers are pursuing the same
plan that they did in the case of General
Trepoff. the former assistant minister of
the INTERIOR and have now opened regular
campaign against NJ. Durnovo. minister of
tiS hllSllOlI accusing MN OI DeihB llS
enemy of the constitution and the sup
porter Of reaction. They also join in a gen.
eral demand for the immediate trial of the
governors and other officials thus far re-
moved. making a special point against NJ.
Neidhardt, the former project Of odessa,
who is called the Russian Nero" and who.
although removed from the prefecture, re-
mains In the ministry of the interior. "All
the military satraps must be brought 70
| justice" is the cry of the radical papers
The new appointments Baron Won Nolken
and NJ Rheinbot, TO be acting governors
| respectively of Tomsk and Kazan. are
| likely to draw their broadsides, NollIen be-
! ing the deposed chief of police OF Warsaw
| still limpng from the effects OF the eX-
plOsion of a bomb thrown at him, and
Rheinbot being the former governor OF the
province OF Nyland. Finland, who threw
the capital into fever Of excitement som,
time ago by sending a dispatch announcing
| that a st. Bartholomew night was TO take
place at Hesingfors, the chief town o.
| Nyland, for which he was removed from
Finland
The approval OF these appointments ar,
charged to NJ. Durnovo, minister of the in
terror, and not TO Premier Witte. The fac
is that under the present conditions tn
OF material to MI responsibility posts. an,
II is largely a choice between men practi
cally all OF whom have done something 4
arouse popular resentment
A popular address is being prepare,
tending the thanks OF the country to Coun
Witte for his services at Portsmouth an
for his present endeavors TO paeify and re
generate Russia,
Troops Ordered 40 sebastODOI.
ODESSA, Nov. 25.-Sb p. m.-Troop
have been sent from here TO quell the dis
TO be increasing. The mutineers have ser
the chief admiral a black coffin and hav
demanded that he leave the town immC
diately. Railway traffic with Sebastopol
interrupted. The wounds of Admiral Piss
reVski, who was shot by the mutinou
sailors. are serious.
Mobiles Cell for COssacks.
NOVOCHERKASSK, Russia, dov 3'
The nobility of this province have urgentl
requested the dispatch TO Novocherkass
OF four regiments Of Cossacks to prote'
their estates against the peasantry
EKATERINOSLAV, Russia, Nov. -,
ofhoers of the local regiments have cha
lenged an editor who criticised their cor
duct during the massacres.
WARSAW. Nov. 3.-The governor ger
eTRl has instructed the provincial govern
ments TO Immediately collect the fines In
posed on Jews for evading military servic
sARATOFF. Russia. Nov. 2.-The loo,
semstvo Is protesting TO Governor Sal