The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-30
DESPERATE BATTLE IS
 FOUGHT AT SEBASTOPOL
ST. PETERSBURG CLAIMS MU- TIMERS BEATEN ON LAND
 AND SEA.

Town and Forts BOmbarded by Rebel
 Cruiser OtchakOR Which Now Lies
 Burning Wreck off Admiralty Point
 Many of Her Crew Killed or Wound
 ed-RevOlutiOnary Fleet Finally Sur
 renders-Heavy Damage to Town
 PrObabIe-RepOrts are Meagre-Tel-
 egraphers Strike.
 St. Petersburg, Nov. 29.-sebastopol was to-day the scene of a desperate battle between the mutinous sailors and the troops in the forts on shore.
 During the battle the town and the forts were bombarded by the guns of the cruiser Otchakoff, which now lies a burning wreck off Admiralty Point, its hull riddled with shells and its Haunt ing red flag of revolution hailed down.
 Many of the crew of the Otchakoff were killed or wounded.
 According to one report the barracks of the mutineers was carried by storm after the mutinous flee, which is said to have numbered ten vessels, having surrendered, and the whole position now is in the hands of the troops under the command of General Nepluetf. The Associated Press, however, is unable to guarantee the correctness of this re- port. Owing to the Interruption of the telegraph, details of the battle are diff f1cult to obtain, but, as the Associated Press is. authoritatively informed by the naval general staff tonight, the hoG 1nIy shore, who opened ire on the Otchakoff which was definantly displaying the red flag.
 The commander of the Otchakoff, Lieutenant Schmidt, immediately ac- cepted the challenge, replying with both batteries, one trained on the town and the other on the Fort Alexander batteries on the north shore.
 Captain SiIotti, aide de camp to Ad miral Wirenius, chief of the naval gen. eral staff, informed the Associated Press that the latest dispatches receiv- ed from Sebastopol showed that the otchakoff was on fire and badly riddled with it's revolutionary colors hauled down, but he was unable to give later or more definite information.
 According to a more detailed report received from another source and pur-' porting. to come from the admiralty, the battle began at 3 o'clock this after noon when Lieutenant Schmidt, nor re- ceiying a reply to the demands of the t1n11tineers, opened fire from fleet of ten ships, to which the northern bat +eries of Fort Alexander. artillery post ed on the shore and several vessels $IoHya1 rnp1ia0.
 During the naval battle the sailors on shore etntrenched. in the barracks de- Tended their position with machine guns and rifles against the attacking Infantry. After an engagement lasting two and a half hours, with the Otcha- koff riddled and on fire and the cruiser Dnieper and another vessel sunk, Lieu tenant Schmidt, who had been badly wounded, surrendered the entire squad ron.
 The mutinous sailors on shore sur- rendered to the Brest and Bielostok regiments.
 According to the report the Pantele- mon (formerly the Kniaz Potemkine) was injured below the water line and a torpedo boat is ashore on the rocks.
 No details of the casualties or of the damage suffered by the town are ob- tainable by the admiralty, but. owing to the confined spaas in which the &C., ton was fought 1t is improbable that the town escaped without heavy dam- age.
 The demands of the mutineers are said to have included, besides the fif- teen proposals dealing with service conditions, the convocation of con stituent assembly and the complete re- alization of the liberties promised by the imperial manifesto.