Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-02
CONTRADICTION From ST. PETERSBURG
0 ficisl Report that KDiaS Potemkine Has
Surrendered.
ACCEPTED WITH CAUTION
submission of the sailors to Admiral
Kruger Saturday was Probably
only Tempornry-Fear Mu-
tiny VIII Extend.

is from an apparently reliable source, |
deputation of one man from each of the |
mutinous battleships, the Kniaz Potemkine |
and the Georgi Pobiedonostz, today visited |
the governor general and notified him that |
unless the city capitulated to the mutineers
within forty-eight hours the warships would
begin a bombardment.
Strong forces of military guard every
street leading to the harbor and the public
is not permitted to approach any point
overlooking the harbor or the sea, even
in the suburbs, where the garrisons have
been strengthened by an addition of four
battalons of infantry and a battery of
artillery, the latter of which has mounted
heavy guns on the high ground in Alex
ander park commanding the harbor and
roadstead.
Many fears are expressed that the re-
mainder of the Black sea squadron now
lying here and consisting OF two battleships,
two cruisers and six torpedo boats will
join in the mutiny.
Says Kniaz Potemkine Surrendered.
ODESSA, July 1.-(via St. Petersburg
The prefect has informed deputation from
the municipal council that the crew of the
battleshp Kniaz Potemkine has surrend-
cred. The Kniaz Potemkine is flying the
st. Andrews flag. A steamer has conveyed
provisions to the battleship.
The panic is unabated and the exodus
from the city continues.
The conhagration in the port lasted until
Friday evening. The most infiammable
liquids were poured on all OF the documents
of the harbor administration and these
were destroyed The town is still in dark
ness, the gas works having suspended.
The Russian Society of Navigation and
/ -.
vessels not to come to Odessa.
Contradictory Reports.
ST PETERSBURG. July 2--3 a. m.-
THE ST. Andrews flag is now floating from
the masthead of the Kniaz Potenlkine."
An Odessa dispatch received here at 2
| O'Clock this morning reports in these words
the surrender of the battleship by its
| mutinous crew, and adds that steamer
has gone out to the Kniaz Potemkine with
a supply of provisions.
| This was the first definite statement re-
ceived in ST. Petersburg regarding the sur
render of the battleship and the dispatch,
| which leaves so many details yet to be
cleared up. is accepted here with caution,
and until it is fully established that an ad-
! euuate guard has been placed aboard the
| battleship and command restored to it's
| commissioned officers, apprehension that
| the revolt will break out again will not be
| ended.
| During saturday st. Petersburg was
| without aite knowledge as to whether
the crew of the Kniaz Potemkine had re-
turned to its allegiance or whether the
revolt still continued and perhaps had
| spread to 9th r ships, and the inability of
the government to announce an end of
the uprising gave rise to the darkest re-
ports. The few dispatches which arrived
Yesterday through the official agency were
evidently carefully censored and lacked
reference to the Inutiny, but the details
they gave about the hurried emplacement
of coast artillery in positions commanding
the harbor and of the refusal of the
authorities to allow the sailors of the
Kniaz Potemkine to purchase provisions
seemed to bode i'll.
| American Consul Heenan at Odessa, who
Friday announced the surrender of the
Kniaz Potemkine yesterday sent a panickS
dispatch to Ambassador Meyer, beginning
Terrible news" 1t gave a report tha
other ships of the Black sea feet had mu
tinted and declared, though not definitely
, that two warships, evidently the Kniai
, Potemkine and the Georgi Pobiedonostz
were in the harbor, but not mentioning
whether the revolt continued
) Altogether, 1t seems apparent that TIL
submission of the sailors of the Kniaz Po
temkine TO Vice Admiral Kruger's squad
ron on Friday was only temporary and tina
the mutineers had changed their mind
after their return to the harbor and tn
departure of the squadron. Whether tn
crew of the Georgi Pobiedonostz wa
spared disaffection is not definitel
known, but the Kniaz Potemkine evidentl
hat tI,a
they would continue the long contest o
; throw up the sponge
e Punishment for Mutineers.
) 1t is not known what punishment is 4
{ store for the mutinous sailors, though 1t
reported that the government has decide
5 to hang every fifth man. The chief mu
d tineers. however, who, under the leader
Il ship of a former ensign named Makhsiutir
= escaped 10 Constantinople, and those re
L naming are probably only their tools
:. Cronstadt was fairly quiet yesterday. tn
= strike OF the longshoremen at one tim
II seemed TO be settled, but the employer
: dcared their inability to pay the wage
e the commandant of the district had prom
ised the workmen and the strike is sti
unended.
The events at Odessa Libau and CroI
stadt increase the difficulty OF the gener,
n situation. Unless lne lnutlny Is cheCke
by the most signal punishment II is apt
prove contagious 1t increases the urgenC
for a national assembly as the sole reme6
to bring the substantial men of the coui
. try back TO the government.
Emperor Nicholas has accepted the resi-
nation OF the minister of war, Gener
Sakharof, which was rendered today
y The Union Of Associations has resolve
ls in view OF the 'imminence Of a revolution
ii 10 organize a political strike in all pr
5, fessions, beginning Monday next.
IN says Crew IL Transferred.
I'd PARIS. July Ia dispatch to the Hav
e. agency from Odessa cophrms previous
ry ports to the effect that the crew Of 1
ICnnttnued on seoond Parel