Arizona republican., 1905-07-05
ANARCHIST LIE
Responsible for the Odessa
 Reign of Terror
THE MUTINEERS DECEIVED
By Representations That the Entire Black Sea Fleet Had Risen Against the Government-An OmCial State- ment of the Situation.

St. Petersburg, July 4.-The govern mental story of the events at Odessa as published in the Official Messenger has been in a great part already cov- cred in the statements made in official | quarters and cabIed to the Associated | Press since the commencement of the | outbreak. After detailing the activity | of the socialists revolutionary commit | tee in stirring up the strikers ashore and the arrival of the mutinuous crew of the battleship Kniaz Potemkine at Odessa, June 27, the account proceeds: "The mutiny of the warships provided the revolutionary committee with a good opportunity to influence the masses. A committee visited the bat tleship and assured the mutineers that the garrison of Odessa had laid down its arms and that the whole Black sea squadron had joined hands with the crew of the Kniaz Potemkine. Accord ing to eye witnesses officers took an active part in the councils of the bat tleship, especially two young cadets. The result of the anarchist intrigues among the workmen and mutinous sailors became immediately evident.
 ''The troops were unable to use their arms against the crowds of Workmen in the vicinity of the harbor for fear of the possibility of an enfilading fire from the battleship. The harbor was therefore at the mercy of the mob. which pillaged warehouses and Ves- sells, preached casks of wine and spir- its and started a drunken orgie.
 1 With nightfall the fires started by the rioters soon attained terrible di- mensions. Nearly everything in the 1 harbor was destroyed, the mob refus- ! fgrr,E !, flames. Among the property destroy : ed were the warehouses of the Russian ! Navigation and Commerce company. the agency and stores of the Danube Navigation company, the stores on the Planatoff piers. the Odessa Harbor railroad station, the harbor masters offices, part of the warehouses of the Russian Navigation and Trading com pany and of the Roseysky and Roshin-
 inc companies on the new pier, the shipping office of the Planatoff pier,
 part of the coal depot all the buildings . of the quarantine harbor. and twenty wagons and six steamers belonging
 to the various companies. The railway
 freight sheds were pillaged and many rioters and Hooters were burned alive
 while intoxicated.
 Several times during the night of
 
 and police with revoIver5 but each time they were scattered by a volley
 from the soldiers. The number of riot
 CTS killed or wounded is not yet known
 but it must exceed several hundred
 The damages can only be estimated
 in the millious of roubles. None of the
 representatives of foreign powers suf-
 fered. The consulates were guarded
 by troops On June 29 a state of Wal
 was proclaimed and the city was cor
 doned by troops. The disorders theI
 ceased"
 The story confirms the report that
 the Kniaz Potemkine on the evening
 of June 29, fired three blank shots as prescribed by the Russian naval code
 for the funeral of a sailor and follow
 ed this up with two live shots. de
 stroying a part of a house. Otherwise
 the battleship did no damage.
 ) The governmen report then proceeds
 to relate the arrival of Rear Admira Kruger's squadron during the morning of June 30, as follows: AS the squad ron approached the odessa pier th' Kniaz Potemkine cleared for action } advanced to meet it and cut thrOugl it's line. As the Kniaz Potemllin' passed, the mutineers received an ova } tion from the crew of the Georgi Pc b1edOnOSetZ. Rear Admiral hruSe l thereupon signalled the squadron t . swing round and return to Sebastopo 5 but the crew of the Georgi PobiedonO , setz prevented that vessel from fol - lowing and put ashore all their officer :. disarmed with the exception of Lieu | tenant Grigorieff, who blew out hi
 brains. On the advice of the revolu - tionists a committee of twenty wa g elected to take charge of the vesse t under the direction of the boatswain'
 mate and apparently against the lat . ter's will DissentiOn prevailed anon - the crew, only part of which wa influenced by the revolutiOnists an a wanted to follow the Kniaz POtem s kline. The latter threatened to fire O sa the GeOrgi PobiedOnose if she trie . to rejoin the squadron at Sebastopo S5 The anti-revolutionary section, how Fl ever ultimately gained the upper han z and when in the afternoon of July S the two battleships weighed anchC & the Georgi PobiedOnosetz put on flu speed, entered the harbor and sent tn & boatswain's mate and some sailor S aS tO signify her SIIbT1iS iSSiOu.