Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-07-07
SQUADRON IS
D|S|MANT TIED
Decision Taken at Council
.. of AdmiraIS and
Captains.
OFFICERS AND MEN ASHORE
Meeting Held Immediately on Arrival
at Sebastopal - Katerlna u Has
Already Been Disarmed - All the
Machinery Will Be Ungeared.

Sebastopol (via st. Petersburg)
July 3.-Immediately after the Black
sea squadron arrived here Saturday
council of admirals and captains
was held on board the flagship Ros-
tislav, Vice Admiral Kruger presid-
ing. The council resolved to ungear
the machinery and authorize the Of
ficers and men to go ashore. The
Katerina H. is here and has been dis
armed.
London, July 3.-Lloyd's agent
at Kustenji, Roumania, in a dispatch
dated at 9:15 o'clock yesterday says
the Kniaz Potemkine and torpedo
boat No. 267 are anchored off that
port and that another steamer is In
the offing apparently watching
Odessa, July 3-According to some
reports the surrender of the Georgi
Pobiedonoseiz was conditional upon
the crew being informed as to what
their punishment would be.
The vessel lies in the inner mar
Dor in a position unfavorable for
bombarding the city. She is COM
pletely under the heavy guns now
mounted in the boulevard overlook
ing the harbor.
Kustenji, Roumania. July 3.-The
commander of the Roumanian fleet
boarded the Kniaz Potemkine and
gave her permission to take water
and provisions pending instructions
from Bucharest
The battleship has anchored within
the three mile limit.
The Russian gunboat Psezouape is
also here, but has not communicated
with the Kniaz Potemkine.
St. Petersburg, July 3.-The unpre
cedented spectacle of a powerful
modern batleship cruising around in
the Black sea in the hands of crew
who, under the rules of international
law cannot be regarded as others
that pirates, and Of the admiral in
command of the rest of the Euxine
fleet frankly confessing his inability
to cope with the situation, and or
dering the fires of his warships to be
drawn, has stupefed the Russian ad-
miralty.
The whereabouts of the Grant bat
tleship Kniaz Potemkine is unknown
since no plans for capturing her have
been devised and the policy of non
interference seems to be at present
in vogue.
Dispatches from Odessa and Sebas-
topol, which are confirmed by the ad-
miralty, clear up fully the present
situation The Kniaz Potemkine has
sailed from Odessa and is now at
large and her crew, reinforced by
control of the vessel.
On the Georgi Pobeidonosetz, which
cast in it's fortunes with the Kniaz
Potemkine after it's arrival at Odessa
and landed it's officers, the more
loyal or timorous portion Of the crew
again gained the upper hand and
agreed to surrender and disarm the
ship. The rest of the squadron re-
turned to Sebastopol without ventur-
ing to take up the gauntlet thrown
down by the mutineers on the Kniaz
Potemkine, and Admiral Kruger, af
ter a council of war; finding that he
could not depend on his crews, or
dered the fires drawn beneath the
boilers of his ships and gave permits
sion to all the disaffected officers and
sailors to quit the vessels and go
ashore.
The sailors of Ekaterina II. were
known to be so mutinOus that the bat
tleship was left behind when the
squadron started for Odessa, the
whole crew dismissed and the ship
disarmed.
The Kniaz Potemkine, which was
steering in a southerly course when
she left Odessa, would within few
hours be south of Russian limits and
may next be heard from at some Bal
kan or Turkish port