The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-01
BY WAY OF WASHINGTON.
How ST. Petersburg First Learned of
the Surrender.

ST. Petersburg, July /, 8 a. m.-The
first news from Odessa of the surren-
der Of the Kniaz POtemkine to Vice
Admiral Kruger's squadron reached
here through the Associated Press dis
patch from Washington conveying the
text Of the cabiegTam SCNt by the
American consul at Odessa. w. S
Heenan. as with the declaration of
martial law General Kailanoff had
shut down on all dispatches. Even the
foreign embassies here were without
advices during the day. The AssOciat-
ed Press dispatches announcing the
surrender of the battleShip was held
up until o'clock this morning. At the
ministry of the interior the Associated
Press had been informed yesterday aft
ernOon that the Kniaz POtemkine with
"A mutinOus crew, probably drunk, and
without man on board capable of ma
Nigating the ship, had already weighed
anchor and started seward. The pre-
sumption is that the battleship met the
squadron before the latter reached the
Offing. and uItdeT the frOwning guns of
krugers Warships concluded that il
was better to surrender than to fight.
Martial Law.
Martial law has been declared at Sc
bastopoI and NichOiaieff and extraOr-
binary powers have been given to Ad-
mirdf Chuknin. commander of the
Black sea fleet but beyond the general
conditions existing in these ports of
the Black sea little definite reasons for
Ihe deciaTatlon OF martial law are
known. Gossip. however, says there
has been mutiny on board the battle
ship Tchesme at SebaStOpOl.
The declaration of martial law in
Erivan was inevitable in consequence
of the situation in the southern Cam
Press indicating that Moslems and Ar
menians were waging what almost
might be called war.
Danger Has Passed.
With the surrender of the Kniaz Po-
temkine. however, the immediate dan
ger Of the situation seemed to col
lapse. the 5000 bluejackets at Iibau
who followed the example Of their COM
radeS on the rebel batttleshiD haviDp,
earlier i'm the day yielded to the n-jli-
tarY, by whom they were surrounded
in wood near the port. after a prom
Use that better food would ,be given
them.
What seemed like an extension of
the mutiny to the sailors at Cornstadt
also proved to be shOrtIived. although
all the regular WOrkmen in the port
are still on strike and reports of com
ing trouble both there and at St Pc
terSburg are rife. The strike todax-
was extended to the Iongshoremen Of
ST. Petersburg, and the wOrkmen i'm
several large factories are again rest
i've and are threatening disorder
Rumor Not Confirmed.
Late last night a rumor gained cur
renCy that a mob had sacked a small
arms factory at hoIpino twenty miles
away. and was marching on St. Peters
burg. but of this rurnor the Associated
Press has been unable to obtain the
slightest confirmation.
Now that the Kniaz Potemkine has
surrendered il * probable that the gov
eminent will gradually allow tie pub
location of the details of the mutinv
The censorship this morning merely
permitted the newspapers to print a
dispatch which gives the Circum-
stances. without credit to a first-cIass
humOrist This dispatch reads:
Odessa. June Il (old styIe) THE
tranquility of the city having been in
terrupted, martial law has been de-
clared.'