The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-07-02
ODESSA CUT OFF
FROM THE WORl O
BY STRICT CENSOR
impossible to Learn
Whether Naval Mutiny
Has Spread.
SURRENDER Is UNLIKELY
Reports Are Conflicting, and
General Revolt Is Now
Apprehended.

LONDON, July IA gloom as deep as
that caused by the great pail of smoke
from the burning docks and buildings
after the first outbreak of rioting and
mutiny that astonished the whole world
still hangs over Odessa
The Russian government has estab-
ilsneo a strict censorship of all news
rom the beleaguered city, and it is al
most impossible to ascertain what are
the exact conditions there since the ar
rival and departure of the Euxine fleet
under Admiral Kruger.
Contradictory reports have come from
Odessa today.
&'ne is that the whole Euxine fleet had
joined the mutineers, and has gone back
TO Sevastopol TO lend It's influence to the
workmen and mutinous soldiers and
sailors at that port This report cannot
De confirmed. An embargo has also
been placed on news from the great
Crfmean port, an outbreak in which
would be far more serious matter
than at Odessa The great storehorses
and Notifications there, once in the pos
session of mutinous garrison and fleet,
would enable the rebels TO bid defiance
10 the government, and to spread the
revolt through all Of Southern Russia
ScH another report comes from Odes-
sa to the effect that the military COVER
nor is in full control of the situation,
and that the Potemkin mutineer., have
surrendered. and have been taken ashore
and imprisoned
This. IT Will be remembered. was the
hrst report sent out yesterday, being
circumstantially denied later by several
correspondents, who fntimated. just be-
fore the censorship was established.
n
been arrested and induced to confess
that the mutiny had spread to the bat
tiesfiip Georgi Pobiedonestzeff, which
had taken up her position alongside the
fotemkin, and that the two were
threatening the city.
Surrender Seems Inconceivable.
It seems inconceivable that the mutt
neers should have thus surrendered with
out making any effort to escape when
capture meant certain death after the
mere formality of a court-martial 1t
- the unanimous belief here today that
the revolt will be found to have q much
greater scope than has been generally
imagined, and that the Odessa outbreak
may prove TO be the forerunner of a
revolution that shall bring about the
ooWnfail of the Romanoff DYNASTY. and
free the nation from the corrIInt and
oppressive system of government which
mas brought 1T 10 the verge of ruin by
forcing II into a humiliating war.
luminous outbreaks are still reported
from various sections of the empire
AT kishenef quiet has been momenta
riiy restored, but late reports saw the
situation there is still exceedingly dan
Eerous. Poland is huge cauldron of
seeting discoatent that may boil over
al any moment. Warsaw and Lodz
are both practically under martial law.
Strike Imminent in Capital.
AT Libau and Cronstadt the mutt
nous sailors and soldiers are sill show
Ing signs of disaffection. and in the can
ftal it is a fact that strike is immi-.
nent, the workers at Kolpino hayi-,r
already seized arms and ammunition
in the great ammunition factories ami
ar1nories preparatory to clash
So 1t is in every quarter of the en-
pire.
No one can foretell what the morrow
may bring forth; but from present indi-
cations the outlook is of the very dark
est and II is extremely doubtful whether
the government can bring sufficient
force to bear to suppress the general
uprising that many believe to be i'm
minent.
- StHui-clic!3i ulsfatcn received here
just before midnight Saturday states
tIlat the battleship knfaz Potemkin not
Only has not surrendered. but that she
ard the battieship Georgi PobIedonostzef
ere anchored off the harbor OF Odessa;
thar both are in the hands of the mutt
neers. and that they served notices on
the garrisons there that unless the city
surrenders ~ the socialists within
1wenty-four hours a general lombard
rnent viii be begun by the crews of tho
battIeships.
Guns crews with rapid firers. accotd-
ing 70 this report. were landed from
both battleshsps on Saturday ard now
control the approaches 10 the several
barracks where the Cossacks are held in
reserve The balance of the Black seq
fleet is reported TO have steamed orr
TO sea apparently afraid TO take issue
with the two bastieships on which the
mutineers are entrenched.