The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-07-06
REBEL WARSHlpS EVIDENTLY
EXPECTING ATTACK FROM
SQUADRON.
IS ORDERED TO SINK REBELS
TROOPS ORDERED TO SINK SHIPS
REGARDLESS OF lombard.
MENT.


Daily Mail from Odessa dated early
this morning, states that the kniaz
Potemkine has not surrendered. The
dispatch says:
1T was reported by the authorities
that the Kniaz Potemkine had surren.
dered Internationally, but it is now
confirmed that she was Joined by the
battleship Georgi PobiedonOsetz,
whose officers were made prisoners.
Both vessels are anchored in the
roads and are using searchlichts Wig
orously as if expecting an attack from
the squadron which is about fifteen
miles distant.
Ordered to Sink Rebel Ships.
"The commander of the troops has
received telegram from the govern
ment ordering him to sink the rebel
ships without regard TO a possible
bombardment.
Il have information regarding this
second mutiny on absolutely reliable
authority"
The dispatch to the Daily Mail is
timed 1926 o'clock this morning. but
nothing was received up to e o'clock
this morning confirming it. None of
the other special dispatches from
Odessa published this morning is
timed later than o'clock last even
ing.
Says Rebel Ship Surrendered.
Odessa. July 2. Without firing a
gun or making the slightest show of
resistance, the mutineers on the
Kniaz Potemkine hauled down the red
flag and surrendered the battleship
to Vice Admiral Kruger's squadron,
which arrived here at noon yesterday.
1t was an anxious moment for OdcS-
sa. as the squadron of FIVE battleships
and seven torpedo boats with their
crews at quarters and their decks
cleared for action steamed within
range of the Kniaz Potemkine the
flagship flying signals which read:
"Yied or Be Sunk"
The display of force was so over
whelmng for the mutineers that all
thought of resistance was abandoned.
Admiral Kruger ordered the Ekater!na
II. TO place a crew on board the Kniaz
Potemkine and the other vessels OF
the squadron Immediately sailed
away. The mutineers will be taken to
Sebastopol.
Mutiny at Cronstadt ShortLived.
Cronstadt, Russia, July 2. - Eight
thousand imperial sailors mutinied
here yesterday and in sympathy with
them the workmen in the yards ana
naval docks suddenly refused 10 work.
One officer was killed. but the mutiny
was quickly suppressed with no fur
Their casualties
There is reason TO believe that this
mutiny and this strike was planned
by the same revolutionary chiefs who
plotted the mutnies a. Odessa ana
LibaU. as we'll as other uprisings
throughout Russia.
ST. Petersburg Slow to Hear News.
st. Petersburg. July 2. - The first
news from Odessa OF the surrender of
the Kiaz Potemkine to Vice Admiral
Kruger's squadron reached here
through the Associated Press dispatch
from Washington. conveying the text
OF cableGram sent by the American
consul at Odessa, Mr.. Heenan. With
the declaration of martial law, Gen.
kabenoff had shut down on all dis
patches. Even the foreign embassies
here were without advices during the
day. The Associated Press dispatch
announcing the surrender of the bat
tleship was held up till 2 o'clock this
morning.
See Deliberate Plot.
Reports received by the ministry of
the interior give an entirely different
version of the origin of the mutiny,
which Is attributed to deliberate plot
organized by twenty sailors belonging
to the revolutionary orcaniza ton.
These reports placed the number of
killed during the rioting on shore at
300 and the wounded at twice that
number.
Martial law has been proclaimed at
SebastopOl and Nicholaieff and pie
nary powers have been intrustrd to
Arrhduke Nicolai. commander of the
Black sea fleet, but. beyond the gen.
eral conditions existing in the ports
of the Black sea, little definite in
formation of the declaration of mar
tial law is known
Gossip. however. says there has
beeCva mutiny on board the battleship
TelEesma a. Sebastopol.
hutiny Is Put Down.
With the surrender of the Kniaz Po-
temkine, however, the immediate
danger of the situation seemed to col
lapse, the 5000 blue:ackets at Libau,
who followed the example of their
comrades on the rebel battleship,
having earlier in the day yielded to
the military. by whom they were sur
rounded in a Tood near the fort, after !