The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-03
ADMIRALTY STUPEFIED.
Mo Plans Devised For Capture of the
kniaZ Potemkine.

st. Petersburg, July >. $40 a. m
The unprecedented spectacle of a
powerful modern battleShip cruising
around in the Black sea in the hands
OF a crew. who under the rules of in
IernatiOnal law cannot be regarded as
other than pirates. and of the admiral
in command of the rest of the Euxine
fleet frankly cOnfessing his inability to
cope with the situation and ordering
the fires of his warShipS to be dra WI.
has stupefied the Russian admiralty.
The wheTea bouts of the eTTant bat
tleShip KniaZ POtemkine is unknown
here; no plans for capturing her have
been devised and the policy of non
interference seems to be at present in
. vogue. The situation would furnish a
d liberettO for comic opera were not
the elements of the plot so serious.
Dispatches from Odessa and Sebasto-
pol. which are confirmed by the ad
miraIty, clear up fully the present
situation. The Kniaz POtemkine has
sailed from Odessa and is now at large
and her crew. reinforced by sympathiz-
ers from shore. is still in control of the
vessel.
Sailors All Unreliable.
ON the Georgi Pobiedonosetz. which
cast i'm its fortunes with the Kniaz
Potemlxne after its arrival at Odessa
and landed its officers the more loyal
OF more timOrOus portion Of. the crew
again gained the upper hand and
-
ship. The rest of the squadron re-
turned to SebastouoI without veuturing
TO take up the gauntlet thrown down
by the mutineers on the Kniaz Potem-
kline. and Admiral Kruger after a cOun-
ell of war. finding that he could not
depend on his crew ordered the fires
drawn beneath the boilers of his ships
and gave permission TO ali the diSaf
fected officers and sailors to quit the
vessels and go ashore. The sailors of
the Ekaterina II were known to be so
mutinous that the battleship was left
behind when the squadron started for
Odessa. the whole crew dismissed and
the ship disarmed.
The KniaZ POtemkine. which was
steering d sOUtherly course when she
left Odessa. would within few hours
be south Of Russian limits and may
next be heard from at some Balkan or
Turkish port.
Partly Explains Defeat.
The spirit manifested throughout the
feet goes tar To explain the defeat in
the sea OF Japan. as a large part of
the crews. especially those of Admiral
NebogatOffS division. were drafted
from the EuXine sea and evidently
were not in mind TO offer a stout
fight.
The proclamation attached to the
dead body OF the KniaZ Potemkme
sailor. Omiltchuk. at Odessa. the text
of which was received yesterday con-
firms the statement of the authorities
that the revolt was engineered by social
revolutiOnists. The prOclama ton ter
minated with the slogan of the party,
lone for all and all for one" This
makes the situation more serious than
would have been the matter of simple
dissatisfaction and gives rise to the
greatest apprehension that the revolu-
tionary organization may have con-
Quoted an equally successful propa-
zanda among the soldiers. the results of
which will be suddenly manifested
when the army is called upon I'm some
internal emergency.
Though no permission was given TO
rrint the details. the latest develop
Tnents are known to ell circles of St
Petersburg
The Esarya. a paper which has been
dormant for some time and therefore
not responsible to the censorship. has
been revived and has printed an extra