The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-11-28
YIELDING TO
MUTINEERS?
Russian Admiral Reported 10
Have Promised Concessions
DEMANDED ATSEVASTOPOL
Fleet Not Expected to Fire on Revolters
Troops Moving in from Several
Sailors Are So Far
Orderly.
DEMANDED ATSEVASTOPOL

tion in Sebastopol is represented to be
improved, the Brest Regiment, which
went over in body to the mutineers.
having returned to its allegiance and
joined the BieIostok Regiment. Reen-
forcements have also arrived at Sebas-
topol, from SimferopoI, marching from
fnkerman, between which place and Sc
bastopol the railroad has been torn up.
Guns commanded all the entrances to
the city from Admiralty Point, where
the mutineers are uuartered and the
sailors are virtually prisoners there.
The battleship Pantelemon formerly
the Kniaz Potemkine). and the cruiser
Otehakotf are in the bay and in control
of the mutineers. who have placed their
officers under arrest The remaining
ships of the Black Sea fleet are off the
southern roadstead. Their crews have
not joined in the mutiny, but it is hard
ly believed they could be induced to fire
on their comrades ashore. Reinforce
ments are also on their way to Sbasto-
pol from Odessa and PavIograd. 1t is
rumored here that Vice Admiral Chouk-
min is parleying with the mutineers, of
fering to accede to all their demands re-
lating to the improvement Of the SER
vice conditions. This is not officially
lconfirmed, but d despatch from the Am
erican consul at Sebastopol, which re-
ports the outlook much less threatening,
says it is reported that Admiral Chouk-
min has received orders from st. Peters
burg to yield everything. The British
consul is chartering vessel to take OF
the subjects OF Great Britain.
| At midnight it was stated BY an Off
cial of the admiralty that the reports
received up to that hour showed there
had veen no conflict at Sebastopol Sunday.
The sailors who mutined number about
four thousand, and belong 10 various
equipages from the Twenty Eighth to
the Thirty-Sixth. Including the sailors
on board the ships, there were about
eight thousand in Sebastopol when the
mutiny occurred. The troops in the
garrison consisted Of the Brest and Bic
lostok regiments, with two battalions
st. Petersburg, reports of the mutiny
lress artillery. The Bielostok Regiment,
lduring the outbreak several weeks ag0,
fired upon the sailors, and at that Adj
lmiralty no doubt Is now entertained that
the mntiny was the result OF the care
! fully prepared work OF revolutionary
agitators, to whom the support given
the mutiueers at Cronstadt BY the work
men of st. Petersburg offered a power
ful weapon. Profiting by the mistakes
lof the mutinears at Cronstadt, however.
70 adopt measures to prevent their meet
ling degenerating into drunken riot,
and 50 far ali known both the mutineers
and the workmen in the port have com
ported themselves in a perfectly orderly
fashion.
There IS 4 strong impression here that
Intelligent leaders are at the head of the
movement. 1t is evident also that the
lsaiors at Cronstadt have had under
ground information OF what was hap
lpening at Sebastopol, because Saturday
morning before the news was known IN
St. Petersburg reports of them utiny
were freely circulated at Cronstadt. Vice
Admiral Ririleff, minister of marine, has
ISSUED a formal order threatening with
arrest and seyerest punishment under
the law, all those who circulated the re-
lports Of the mutiny.
In both cabinet and naval circles It il
! Regarded as absolutely vital that mutiny
! be crushed in the severest fashion al
lany cost if discipline in the navy is ia
be restored and the army held loyal II
! the event Of the sailors Of Vice Admiral
Chouknin's ships remaining loyal. they
win cooperate with the troops Of The
Seventh Corps from Sebastopol. The
lprobIem Of hemming in the mutineers
and subduing the revolt is said by naya
officers to be comparatively easy. Tho
. marine barracks lie at the extremity Of
a narrow tongue Of land jutting out be
! tween the souLnern roadstead and what
! is known as the "Ship's Bay. The bar
racks of the Bielostok Regiment are al
} the very neck of the peninsula nesting
} under the shelter of the famous Mala
koff Hill. barring the route to the city
! which lies on the southern side Of til,
roadstead opposite the quarters oil tn,
> sailors. The warships can enter the road
! stead and Ships Bay, practically sur
! round the mutineers on three sides, ant
batter their barracks down about thei
ears. The forts Of Sebastopo lie Yves
i and south Of the city and along tn,
! north shore of Sebastopol Bay, and onl,
I, the guns of Fort Constantine, which de
j fend the entrance to the roadstead, coul,
9 be brought TO hear upon the barracks
b The wounded admiral Pisareyski, wh'
commanded the practice squadron Of tn
feet. was one Of the naval heroes Of tn
G Russo Turkish war. He was on boar,
: the yiga with Roiestvensky when tina
3 vessel was torpedoed by a Turkish moni
!, ltor.