Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-11-29
FLEET JOINS
THE REVOLT.
MutineerS Take Officer from
Prison to Command Them
Army Is Weakening.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. %. = The
entire fleet at Sevastopol has joined the
mutineers ashore in their revolt.
The sailors have liberated Lieutenant
Schmidt, al officer of the Black sea
squadron, who was in prison awaiting
trial for placing wreaths on the graves
Of the mutineers killed last July.
Schmidt went aboard the cruiser OF
chakoff and assumed command of the
squadron.
The governor ordered the squadron
to leave the harbor. Schmidt refused
to obey and notified the governor that
II any of the sailors under arrest We're
placed before Il court martial the war
ship would lombard the town.
A later report says that the sailors
at Sevastopol have massacred all their
officers.
According to n private telegram from
an eminently trustworthy source in Sc
vastopol the rebels are so completely
masters of the situation that the gov
eminent will be compelled to accede to
all their demands.
The rebellious sailors are playing a
waiting game and apparently have full
confidence that the guns Of the fleet
will not be turned against them. If
they have not actually disregarded the
summons to haul down the red flag
they seem determined to make the au-
thorities show their hands.
The staff quarters at Sevastopol are
guarded by Cossacks, and the officers
in the streets are accompanied by es-
corts of Cossacks, the only branch Of
the service the fidelity of which is alb
solutely unquestioned.
A dispatch from Moscow says that
the garrison there is disaffected. The
strikes continue.
1t is persistently rumored that Grand
Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch will be
appointed regent in view of the cars,
alleged intention to go abroad.
The soldiers attached to the Military
School of Electricity here have been
lovsky regiment and taken to the
fortress SITS, Peter and Paul.
Autocracy early this morning began
its death struggle with revolution by
hurting such regiments as remained
loyal to it against the mutinous regi-
ments intrenched in the school. The
attack developed into a battle that
showed not only the preparedness OF
the insurgents, but their determination
to withstand tyranny at all points and
to shoot down their own comrades if
those comrades remained the lackeys of
the ~bureaucrats. Six regiments of Cos
sacks and other guards We're employed
in the assault. The mutineers were
driven from another of the buildings by
the concentrated fire of five or six Cos
sack horse batteries, and all were cap
tured.
A note of popular joy rises at the
news that the notorious General IRE
poff has been requested to take a trip
abroad.
Professor Hodsky, editor of the Ma
sha Shisn, called upon the premier to
demand permission for Father Gapon
to return to Russia. What is the use
of deception among friends" said
Count White to the professor. "You
and | know, eve if the police do not,
that Father Gapon has been living in
your house since Aug. 49,"
The military officers mt st. Peters
burg admit that no reliance can be
placed on the line regiments, not ever
on those now stationed in the capital.
The spirit of revolt pervades the whole
army from Nladivostok to the Euro
pean frontier, and the M%anchurian
forces are almost openly revolving.
The state of affairs at Sevastopol,
Odessa, Simferopol and Tifis shows
that the revolutionary spirit has spread
to southern Russia and Transcaucasia.