Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-07-07
SUBJECTION RUD1I
MUTTNEERS SAID TO SHOVr,v,
WHITE FEATHER.
1t is Reported That sou Men p.....
From the Rattleshlp kala. p.,..,
kline During Saturday and Il.
Mercy From Authorities, i..,s.
Mutlneers Short Handed to FIob.

el leaNlha
Mutineers Short Handed to FIob,
st. Petersburg, July s.-aTbe :,
Andrews flag is now flying from !,
masthead of the Kniaz Potemtln.s
An Odessa dispatch reports IN II.
words the surrender of the battla.s
by her mutinous crew. and adds II,
a steamer has gone out to the XII.
Potemkine with supply Of provisoa.
This was the first definite statems.
received in st. Petersburg resaras
the surrender of the battlesbip s
the dispatch, which leaves So ms.
details yet to be cleared up. is aoosD
ed here with caution, and until Il
fully established that an adeomi
guard has been placed aboard the h,
tleship and command restored Il. N
commissioned officers, apprebensIo
that the revolt will break out All
Will not De 6nQeQ.
During Saturday st. Petersburg v.
without definite knowledge Al
whether the crew of the Kniaz Poteu
kline had returned to its allegiance
whether the revolt still continua
and perhaps mad spread to other shin
and the inabl4ity of the government
announce an end of the uprising gaV
rise to the DARKEST reports. The ie
dispatches which arrived yesterds
through the official agency were 81
IDENTIFY carefully censored and lacke
reference to the mutiny, but the a
tails they have about the hurried en-
placement Of coast artillery in Dos
tons commanding the harbor and
the revolt continued.
Altogether, it seems apparent til
the submission of the sailors Of ii
Kniaz Potemkine to Vice Admiral Kr
gers squadron on Friday was on
temporary and that the mutineers ha
changed their minds after their
turn to the harbor and the departu
Of the squadron.
Whether the crew Of the Geor
PobiedOnosetz shared the disaifectO
is not definitely known, but the Knl
Potemkine crew evidently vaclllsta
for a long time as to whether ths
would continue the long contest
throw up the sponge.
1t is reported here that 300 mt
deserted from the Kniaz PotemhT
during Saturday and threw themselV
on the mercy of the authorities, thef
by leaving the mutineers too shO
handed to fight and work their shi
The report continued that the Vech
crew declined an invitation to con
aboard and Join the forces Of
Kniaz Potemkine, and that the sure
der of the battleship therefore was
eyitable.
1t is not known what punishment
in store for the mutinous sailor
though it is reported that the COVER
ment has decided to hang every IF
man. The chief mutineers, howeT
who were under the leadership Of
former ensign named Makhslutin,
capped to Constantinople, and those
naming are probably only their too
Cronstadt was fairly quiet yest
day. The strike of the longshorem
at one time seemed to be settled, ;
the employers declared their inabii
to pay the wages the commander
the district had promised the wOI
men, and the strike is still unended
The events at Odessa, Libau a
Cronstadt increase the difficulty Of I
general situation. Unless the mutt
Is checked by the most signal pI
lshment it is apt to prove contagio
1t increases the urgency for a nation
assembly as the sole remedy to brl
the substantial men of the count
back to the government.