The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-12-01
1000 SAILORS AND REGIMENT OF
INFANTRY IN OPEN RE-
BELLION.
TALK OF A DICTATORSHIP
SITUATION HAS CREATED GREAT.
EST ALARM IN GOVERN
MFNT CIRCLES.

pected mutiny of sailors, VINO have
been on the verge Of revolt for
months, has come, and Russia's
stronghold on the Black sea is in
danger of falling completely into
their hands.
The situation is very critical. All
thte shore equipages, numbering 1000
men, are in open rebellion, having
driven away or taken their officers
prisoners.
The Brest regiment of infantry has
gone over iii . body to the m~utineers.
Gen.. Neplueff, the commander of the
fortress, is a captive.
Cheered the Mutineers.
The Bielostok regiment. the only
other Nsiment in the city, received
the mutineers with cheers, but thus
far it remains loyal.
Some of the a%rtillerists have also
JOIlCu IlC Ilcu III revolt
Besides the Bielostok regiment
there r two battalions Of artillery
and a battalion of the fortress artil-
lery here.
The Euxine fleet is standing in the
offing and is still obeying the orders
of Vice Admiral Chouknfn, but the
crews are disaffected and there is
grave doubt whether they can be re-
strained from joining the mutineers
and greater doubt that they will fire
upon them.
Troops Summoned.
The Seventh army corps and the
commander of the corps have been
hastily summoned from Simferopol,
eight hours distant.
There is every evidence that the
mutiny was deliberately and perfectly
planned by the social revolutionists.
who have been pushing their propa-
ganda with great energy since the ST.
Petersburg strike was organized to
save the Cronstadt mutineers.
Last night the mutineers were de-
serted by the Brest regiment, which
marched off under arms to a camp
formed by loyal sailors, and sem a
message to Vice Admiral Chouknin
asking his pardon and saying they
were ready to return to duty. The
rev of all the ships except the
Panteleimon formerly the Potem-
kine) and the Otchakoff
Refused to Join the Mutiny
or to answer the signals of the sail
ors on shore. The men on the ships
thorities have the mutineers COM
pletely hemmed in, but are awaiting
the arrival of the troops from Simf ,r-
opol before attempting to retake the
barracks.
The mutineers apparently are in al
excellent state of discipline. They
have constructed ~barricades, have
supplies the barracks and have
thrown out pickets which take regu-
lar turns at guard duty. They de-
clared that they had risen because
their commanders had withheld con-
cessions promised by the emperor,
and that they are ready to hold out
until these are put into effect.
Government is Alarmed.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 28.-The sue
cessful mutiny of the sailors at Sc
bastopol, accompanied by the first
open revolt of an entire regiment of
troops, has created the greatest alarm
in government circles and no attempt
Is made to disguise the seriousness of
this latest crisis.
The army is the last prop of the
government. Mutiny is contagious
and the epidemic of revolt which has
attacked in turn practically all the
units of the navy from Vladivostok to
Cronstadt, it is now feared, is des-
tined similarly to spread through the
army.
Ugly reports have been repeatedly
circulated of sedition among the sol
diers in Manchuria, and it was specifi-
cally reported a week ago that Gen.
Linevitch had to put down a mutiny
with considerable bloodshed, and that