The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-27
EUxINE FLEET IS LOYAL
Crews of Vessels May Yet
 Join Rebellion.
Drest Regiment of Infantry Goes over h Body, and Other Soldiers tt wm Not shoot When
 Cemmanded to Do So.

Sebastapol, Saturday, Nov. 2J.--(Mfd- night, delayed.) d.)-The long expected mu- tiny of sailors who 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 the shore equipages. numbering 1000 men, are in open rebellion, having driven away or taken their officers prisoners. The Brest regiment of infantry has gone ever in body to the mutineers. General Neptueff, the commander of the fortress, is captive. The Bielostok regiment the only other regiment in the city, received the mutineers with cheers, but thus far 1t remains loyal. Some of the artillerists have also joined the men in revolt
 Besides the Bieiostok regiment there are two battalions of artillery and q battalion of the fortress artillery here. Fleet 0beys Admiral.
 The Euxine fleet is standing in the oflnE and is still obeying the orders of vice-Admiral Chouknin, but the crews are disaffected and there Is grave doubt whether they can be restrained from joining the mutineers and greater doubt that they will fire upon them.
 The seventh army corps and the com Ynander of the corps have been hastily summoned from Simferopol, eight hours distant.
 There is every evidence that the mu- tiny was deliberately and perfectly planned by the social revolutionaries who. have been pushing their propa- ganda with great energy since the St. Petersburg strike was organized to save the Cronstadt mutineers. Friday, eight sailors at the barracks seized, disarmed and expelled their of Hcers. They then assembled great meeting. Rear Admiral Pisarevski, romander of the Practice Squadron, sup ported by a company from the Brest regiment. went to the meeting, and when t refused to dispaFss. ordered the troops te fire.
 Instead of shooting the mutineers, however, two shots rang out and Cap tain Stein, of the company. fell dead. and Rear Admiral Pisarevski received q ball in his shoulder.
 MalnfaiMin@ Good Order.
 During the night the sailors with the aid of the Social Democracy leaders, having learned a lesson from the less prudent mutineers at Cronstadt, elected officers and decided upon a program pledging themselves not only not to pill lage, kill or drink vodka, but to take measures to prevent rowdyism. This morning (Saturday), they were joined by the workmen of the port. and at II o'clock. in complete order. the sailors, carrying the banner of St. George and the workmen red flags, marched to the bar racks of the Brest regiment.
 The officers of the regiment threat ened to fire upon the mutineers, but General Neptueff, colonel, and other officers. surrendered, and were sent un- der escort to the marine prison.
 Being reinforced by the rank and file of the entire regiment, the mutineers and workmen formed a procession com posed of 10000 men and marched through the city.
 encountered several companies of the Bielostock regiment with a machine gun battery.
 The mutineers approached, their bands playing the national anthem, and the soldiers saluted the procession with full military honors. presenting arms and exchanged cheers.
 BielOst Ik Men Loyal
 But the BieIostok men resisted the appeals of the mutineers to join them, and. obeyfng the orders of Commander Schulman, marched off toward the road leading Ito Balaklava. The battery, however, remained with the mutineers and participated in the meeting.
 After the meeting the procession formed and went to the barracks of the Bielostok regiment where they found other companies, but these companies also declined the invitation of the mu- tineers to join them.
 In the afternoon the sailors from the barracks signalled their comrades aboard the warships to join them, and also sent a deputation to vice-Admiral Choukin requesting him to come to the sailors barracks and hear their griev- ances. But the Admiral in a short speech in which he pointed out the madness and criminality of their ac- tions. and the dreadful penalty to which they had subjected themselves, declined to accede to the request.
 The sailors thus far have comported themselves we'll. This evening the mu- tineers stopped the trains in order to prevent the arrival of troops from Simferopol, and many persons left on foot and in cabs, wagons or any other kind of vehicle available