Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-06
CREW ISSUES MANIFESTO
Mutineers Declare that State Of Civil
War Exists in Russia.
FOREIGN SHIPS Will NOT BE MoLESTEO
KniRE POtemkine Visits Theodosia
and Levies Tribute of Coal,
Provisions and Medi-
zines.

ADle the ASSOClaleu tTeSS mas Deen IN
formed BY an authority usually reliable
that the authorities has received reports
that the Kniaz Potemkine, after shipping
coal, medicines and provisions, is again at
large in the Black sea and her destina-
ton is unknown. Whether the report Of
the sailing of the battles.ip is true or not,
the crew took remarkable step when,
with all the solemnlty Of a provisional
government, it issued a manifesto to the
powers announcing that civil war had been
begun against the existing regime in Rus
STA and pledgng the inviolability Of for
eign shipping and foreign ports.
This action doubtless was taken to quiet
the apprehensions of foreign powers and
to leave no excuse for the sending of
warships through the Dardanelles to eff
feet the capture of tho battleship. which,
until now, Russia's Black sea fleet has
not dared to attempt. 1t is considered a
shrewd move on the part of the mutineers
and stamps the commander of the crew
as a leader far above the class of the
ordinary sailor and strengthens the opin-
ion that he is not a member of the original
crew, but one of the revolutionaries who
went on board at odessa.
Manifesto Lends Dignity.
The issuance of the manifesto lends a
certain dignity to the mutiny and proves
that the crew and their commander have
no desire that the world should believe
them to be mere outlaws, but that they
should be looked upon as men seriously
raising the standard of revolution.
Nothing has been received to confirm
the supposition that the request for doc
tor at Theodosia indicated a struggle for
supremacy on the warship on the way from
KusenH According to a rumor printed
in an afternoon paper the ships strong
box contained $375,OO0 and the mutineers
would therefore be we'll supplied with
money.
In circles closely in touch with the revo-
lutionists It is regarded a foregone con-
clusion that the commander Of the Kniaz
Potemkine. knowing the situation in the
Caucasus, will head for Poti or Batoum,
where the revolutionists are exceedingly
strong, in the hope of producing a general
rising with the authorities in the eau
casus almost powerless to prevent 1t, such
contingency is by no means impossible.
General strike in TifIs.
Dispatches from Tihis received last night
say that reports of the rioting at Odessa
and the action of the Kniaz Potemkine
have aroused the most intense interest
and the widest JOY among the revolution
lists.
The receipt Of the report was followed
Immediately by complete strike, even
the lamplighters quitting work. The city
is in darkness and the inhabitants gem
| orally are fleeing to the northward.
The Emperor Nicholas H., crew of which
is reported to have mutinied at CONSTANT
nople, is a Russia nmerchantman.
Considerable anxiety is felt because the
cruiser Chernomoretz, which was due at
sebastopol Monday, has not yet arrived.
Order has not been restored at Bielostok.
A censored telegram received last night
reports that shooting has been heard; that
crowds are fleeing and that wild excitement
| prevails, but no details are given.
CritIcIse Naval system.
With publication in the official Messenger
of the official account of the tragedy at
Odessa the hand of the censorship is raised
and all papers are filled with columns upon
columns of accounts from the foreign pa
pers Leaving aside the Vaccinations of
the revolutionists the press with one voice
| declares that the mutinies on board ships
of the Black sea fleet were the result of
| the rotten system in vogue in the Russian
| navy. the bluejackets being utterly neg
| lected and the officers living ashore except
| during the brief cruises Captain Clado
| in long review affirms that the question
| of food was more pretext, the real cause
| being deeper, in the complete lack of SYM
| pathy between the men and their officers,
most of whom. he says, are disgust
ingly incompetent. Owing their positions
| to influence at st. Petersburg, they
| care nothing for good service or the well
| being and contentment of the men. Other
writer's, some of whom evidently are high
! In, he hut hp
sumed names, in a most savage fashion
declare that the bureaucratic regime in the
navy is only reaping what it has sown
and plainly intimate that similar condi
\ lions exist in the army.
Fear" says tbs Slovo, lis the sole
| basis of discipline in the army and navy.
| and 1t will prove poor an instrument
| for keeping the rank and file loyal to the
| throne as It has in the suppression of dis
content among the people. The govern
| ment should learn the lesson that the SOL
| diers and sailors are beginning to awaken,
as the people have already awakened"
COssacks DIsperse Strikers.
| Cossacks fired on the Putiloff
works strikers this morning. The
trouble was started by the ar
rest Of a youth who was entering the
| works. The policemen who took him into
! custody suspected the young man of having
| dynamite in his possession. The latter, on
being made a prisoner, drew revolver and
killed the policeman and was himself
wounded by a bullet fired by another po-
| liceman. The strikers quickly congregated
on the Peterhon road and Cossacks were
! ordered to dispense them. The soldiers
charged, using their whips, and then fired
| a yolley, causing several casualties among
! the strikers. The excitement IN the dis
/ trict is intense.
An independent investigation made by
! the Associated Press shows that the SOL
| diers did not fire on the Putilon work
| men, but there was more or less riot
! ing, during which some Of the strikers
! fired revolvers and officers were stoned.
Revolutionary proclamations were scat
tered broadcast among the crowds and
/ evening Cossacks and infantry patrols
were about the works and the men were
| in an ugly mood. The managers Of the
works threatened TO close them indehn-
itely II the men do not resume work to-
| morrow.
Crew PrOcIaims Revolution.
THEODOsIA, Crimea, July 5.-Summoned
! by the Kniaz Potemkine, representatives
Of the town council went on board the bat
| tleship and were received in the admiral
| cabin by the commission commanding IT,
The commission demanded the delivery OF