Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-04
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clal agency the torpedo boat destroyer
smetilvy with a volunteer crew has sailed
from Odessa with the intention of sinking
the Kniaz Potemkine.
with Kustenji and other unprotected
ports of Roumania, Bulgaria and Turkey
at the mercy of the battleships guns and
with the inability Of Vice Admiral Kruger's
squadron to interfere with its career. ta-
city admitted by retiring them from COM
mission, this desperate eKpedient was
seized upon to prevent international com
plicatlons and to rid the BACK sea OF
mutineers.
The Admiralty, however, It should be
stated, does not admit that the Smetilvy
has gone on such an errand, though the
officials say frankly that the KniaZ potent
kline must in law be regarded as pirate.
As much as Russia as a matter of prin-
ciple would like to see the provisions of
the treaty of Paris closing the Dardanelies,
abrogated, the Foreign office would oppose
the passage of foreign warships as a tenn
porary expedient declaring the occasion
did not warrant such a measure.
Foreign Minister Lamsdorff told several
ambassadors who called upon him to in
auire as to the safety of foreigners that
the situation was far less grave than pic
tured in some dispatches.
Orders have been sent to the officers of
the George Pobiedonosetz,, who resumed
charge after the mutineers were put
| ashore, to take the vessel to Sebastopol.
General Karakozoft has been appointed to
restore order at Odessa and his first act
was to offer to employ 10000 idlers in clear
ing the ruined part He also took precau-
tions to prevent a Jewish massacre
FT~1. m Qi
statement OF killed and wounded today.
Disorder at other Points.
! At Kieff the first mobilization trouble
occurred. The reservists attacked and
wounded several policemen and plundered
liquor shops. The Jews are avoiding serv-
ice by flight.
| More serious in it's way, however, was
the refusal OF the disciplinary battalion at
Kherson to obey orders. They attacked
their captain and killed their colonel The
latter, when mortally wounded by bayonets
marched his soldiers to barracks and then
sank dying.
The efrervescense in Poland has again
! commenced. Police have been attacked
with bombs and in several places there
have been collisions between the troops
and the populace. At Kaltze FIVE were
| killed.
other revolutionaries In other parts OF
the country are making the most of the
| opportunity to preach strikes and disorder
and the intelligencia propose a general
stoppage of activity by all professional
| classes.
Moscow is comparatively quiet, but there
is much nervousness over the ugly attitude
| Of the workmen About half of all the
trades have again struck and It is believed
that the strike will spread. Cossacks had
to use knouts near Putiloff yesterday after.
noon and grave trouble is not unlikely.
! While commerce at both St. Petersburs
and Cronstadt is at standstill, the report
that Cronstadt has been closed to foreign
shipping is untrue. The strike OF long.
shoremen continues and the sailors. though
not mutinious, are openly declaring theii
sympathy with their comrades in the EuK
Inc sea.
At the embassies the seriousness OF the
situation is fully realized, but the diplomats
advise their callers to keep their heads
and not become alarmists.
Strike in Nevsky ship Yards.
The strike of the Nevsky shipyards which
began yesterday became general this morn
ing. Between 5000 and 5000 strikers helC
a meeting in the courtyard OF the works
Subsequently the men attempted to form
a procession. Thereupon the authorities
requistioned 800 Cossacks, who dispersed
the men with the free use Of their whips
There is marked excitement In labor circles