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bastopol and Odessa has been stopped for
two days.
WHY THE PorEMKrN FIRED.

bastopol and Odessa has been stopped for
two days.
WHY THE PoTEMKrN FIRED.
LONDON, July IA despatch to the
Standard from Odessa yesterday said that
the firing Of two 24-pound shots last
night by the Potemkin was owing to the
| foolish temporary detention by the military
| authorities OF four Of the fifteen mutineers
sent ashore to bury their comrade Omel-
chuk. One shot, fairly aimed, fell harm
lessly but dangerously near the spacious
Cathedral Square, which was filed with
1900 soldiers. The other shot fell little
short of the Cossa cks' barracks.
general exodus was in progress at les
P. NJ when the despatch was sent. Thirty
thousand persons had left within the last
forty eight hours. Many members OF the
British colony were sending their wives
and families away. The commandment, the
Civil Governor and the police master were
absolutely inaccessible. The correspond
ent said he spent four hours this morning
in vain attempts to obtain speech with one
or all OF these authorities.
Forty-fve men, alleged by the police
to be incendiaries, were killed last night in
Primorskaa street. which tanks the
inner bay.
QUIET IN L1BAu.
despatch to the Daily Mail from Lihan
says that the town is quiet There is great
retioenoe regarding the mutiny,
The rioters are now in their barracks,
guarded by Cossacks and infantry with
machine guns. Two hundred of them
escaped to the forests.
1t is reported that 4,OOO sailors raided the
armory ana sacked their officers quarters.
INSURGENTS ORGANIZED GOVERNMENT.
The Petit Parisien of Paris publishes a
despatch from Odessa reporting that the
insurgents have organized provisional
government.
The same papers st. Petersburg cor
respondent says that the opinion in the
Russian capital inclines to the belief that
the revolt was not a spontaneous outburst,
but was the elimination of matured plot
The authorities acknowledge that ten Of
ficers of the Kniaz Potemkin are with the
mutneers.
A despatch to lIoyols from Odessa saw
that three steamships belonging to the
Russian Transport Company have been
burned. Names and details are not given.
Altogether nine ships had been burned up
to last evening.
CONSUL REPORTS SURRENDER.
WASHINGTON, June 3O.-Unted States
Consul Heenan reported from Odessa
to-day that the Kniaz Potemkin surrendered
to the Russian Black Sea feet at noon,
The airing on the town from the Potemkin
did not last long. and the vessel surrendered
Immediately upon the arrival Of the feet
Earlier advioes received at the State
Department from Consul Heenan and from
Mr.. Meyer, the American Ambassador at
st. Petersburg. showed that the guns Of
the kniaz Potemkin had been turned on
the city the wharves had been destroyed
by fire and 500 rioters had been killed by
the troops.
Many Russian stea mers had been de-
stroyed by the fire. Consul Heenan in
one despatch says that six officers OF the
Kniaz Potemkin were murdered by the
mutinous crew and eight liberated upon
the arrival of the vessel at Odessa. The.
remainder were prisoners on board the
ship.
One despatch from Ambassador Meyer
said that six companies Of marines 1t Lbau
had Inutinied and wrecked their barracks.
They were surrounded and some Of them
surrendered. Mr.. Meyer added that there
seemed to be concerted action on the part
of the sailors in the Black Sea and the Baltic.