Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-12-02
HOW HE SERVED HIM
A Resourceful Court Officer
Tricked H. Fl. Rogers.
PUT SUBPOENA IN CAB WINDOW
Standard oil Magnate silent when
Approached In Front of His Resi-
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Cash Thrown In His Lap.
81. PETERSBURG, Nov. 20 = The
entire feet at sevastopol has Joined tile
mutineers ashore in their revolt.
The sailors have liberated Lieutenant
Schmidt, an 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
chalIon and assumed command of the
squadron.
The governor ordered the squadron
to leave the harbor Schmidt refused
TO obey and notified the governor that
if any of the sailors under arrest were
placed before court martial the war
ship would lombard the town.
A later report says that the sailors
at Sevsstopol have massacred all their
officers.
According to a private telegram from
an eminently trustworthy source in Sc
vastopol the rebels are so completely
masters of the situation that the gov
ernmept viii be compelled to accede to
all their demands.
This information entirely bears out
the tenor Of the official dispatches,
which intimate that the authorities
dare not suppress the mutiny with
force unless the government can send
very strong contingents from other
parts of the country and invest the
town.
1t is needless to say that these dis
patches are not published. In fact, the
usual attempt is made to minimize the
gravity of the situation The perfect
order and tranquility prevailing at Sc
vastopol are construed into symptoms
of the collapse of the revolt, whereas,
as a matter of fact, these symptoms
rather go to show the perfect organiza-
ton of what is nothing less than rev.
|olutiOnary movement. The sailors and
their friends evidently remain in con-
troll, and they have been Joined by the
laborers and railway men. This has
rendered it impossible to send re-en-
forcements to Sevastopol by train.
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 ears
alleged intention to go abroad.
The soldiers attached to the Military
School of Electricity here have been
arrested by four battalions of the Paw
lovsky regiment and taken to the
fortress SITS. Peter and Paul.
A Sevastopol dispatch says that the
last day Of grace accorded the mutt
neers has expired, with no signs of
surrender on the part of the men. The
hills towering above the harbor of the
Russian stronghold in the Black sea
may soon reSound as they did in the
days of the Crimean war with the
roar of musketry and cannon should
the government attempt to carry out
its announced intention of crushing the
revolt with the mailed fist.
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.
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 Witte to the professor. you
and l know, even if the police do not,
that Father Gapon has been living in
your house since Aug. 49,"
The military officers at st. Peters
burg admit that no reliance can be
placed on the line regiments, not even
on those now stationed in the capital
The spirit of revolt pervades the whole
army from Vladivostok to the Euro
pean frontier, and the Manchurian
forces are almost openly revolving.
The state Of affairs at Sevastopol
Odessa, Simferopol and Tifiis shows
that the revolutionary spirit has spread
to southern Russia and Transcaucasia
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