Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-07-06
CIVIL WAR
In RUSSIA
CARS PEOPLE IN OPEN
REVOLT, CAUSE GRAVE
FEARS.
BLOOD AND PlLLAGE RESULT I'M
Ll6AU, ODESSA AND
cRONSTADT.
PEACE WITH JAPAN NOW OR
THE RUSSIAN EMPIRES
WRECK.

Eight thousand imperial sailors. to-
gether with the workmen at the yards
and docks in the naval port of Cron-
stadt, rose in mutiny Friday morning.
! One officer was killed. The me-. re-
fused TO work or pay any neeu ~
officers. The outbreak, together with
those at Libau and Odessa. caused an
all-round slump on the bourse. I'm
perial As were sustained by the gov
eminent, but nevertheless they fell al
most a point.
The mutiny of the men on the Rus
sian warship Kniaz Potemlline and
murder of the officers which startled
all Russia was but the beginning of
a practical outbreak OF civil war. Ar
irving in Odessa, the mutinous crew
| trained the guns on the city and bid
defiance to all civil and military au-
thority, the result being that on Tues
day night collisions between the mobs
and the police and military resulted
in the loss Of seventeen lives, includ-
ing three policemen. Wednesday
night the quarantine station in the
| harbor, warehouses, stores and offices
and some ships were fired ny reYolu
preparing to slip their .moorings in
case of need. and the Kniaz Potemkine
was playing a searchlight on every
portion of the harbor. Later that
| night perceiving a picket of Cossacks
stationed at the Richelieu monument
on Nicolai boulevard, the Potemkine
fired a shell, killing four and wound
ing twenty of them. Finally a great
/ raNah lyn oh 10 fpt.x
don around the town and looted two
large customs warehouses.
Between II and IL o'clock Thurs
day night the KniaZ Potemkine began
firing on the town, and incendiaries
began TO set fires. The confiagration
extended for over a mile, and thou
sands of tons of railway sleepers and
all the trestles supporting the elevat-
ed railroad serving the port, together
with all the contiguous buildings
were consumed, the troops in the
meanwhile firing volleys to compel
the rioters to desist.
A dispatch from Odessa timed 1852
p. m. Friday says: "Mobs estimated
TO number 10000 persons attacked the
patrols of troops in the streets yester
day and the fighting continued into
were killed or wounded. The hospi-
tails are crowded with wounded. The
petroleum reservoirs were set on fire
and exploded. All traffic in the streets
is stopped The volunteer cruiser
Saratoff was burned Up to the pres
ent time nine ships have been burned
The central railway station was de-
stroyed by fire last evening, many
| tY,in t.l- IN
the hospitals"
About 1000 mutinous sailors are
surrounded in a small wood near the
port of Libau by infantry, the latter
being reinforced by machine guns.
| One thousand of the mutineers sur
rendered and gave up their arms. The
mutiny started Monday night when
the sailors of the first eQuipage, as
the naval units are known In Russia.
revolted because the food was bad.
They were Joined Immediately by the
sixth, ninth. thirteenth and fifteenth
equipages-5.O 600 blue jackets in all.
The city was terrorized when troops
and artillery arrived Wednesday
morning All entrances to the city
were closed and gradually the sailors
were driven into the wood which they
have since held. Much firing, min
gled with the humming of machine
guns has been heard. and everyone
is forced by the police to keep OF the
streets and away from the ports some
distance below the town.
The car has issued the following
ukase addressed TO the ruling senate:
In order to guarantee public safety
Odessa and neighboring localities,
we have found ii necessary to declare
state of war in Odessa and district,
and to invest the commander of the
troops in the military district of Odes-
sa with the special rights of civil adj
ministration for the defense of order
and public tranquility.
With Poland red with the spirit of
revolt, the Caucasus already almost
in state of civil war: agrarian dis
orders spreading rapidly, the whole
country profoundly stirred and the in
telligent classes solidly arrayed
against the government, all conditions
seem ripe for the long-predicted revo-
luton, Great fear is expressed that
many regiments are honeycombed
with sedition and there is grave doubt
of their loyalty should they be called
upon to fire on the revolutionists.
When the news reaches the armies in
Manchuria II is bound to create a
deep impression.