The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-06
REBEL WARSHIP STILL
 AT LARGE ON BLACK SEA
SAILS AGAIN AFTER SHIPPING COAL, PROVISIONS AND
 MEDICINES.

COmEnSudant of Crew a Shrewd Leader
 -Importance of the Manifesto to the
 Powers Declaring Civil War and
 Hedging InviOIability of Foreign
 shipping-VesseI Appears Off TheO-
 dosIa and Demands Coal and PrOvis-
 ions Under Threat of BOmbardment-
 Torpedo Boat Said to Have Fired Two
 Shots Into Alderman.
 St. Petersburg, July 6-2:15 a. m.- While no official confirmation is obtain able, the Associated Press has been in- formed by an authority usually reliable that the admiralty has received news that the Kniaz Potemkine, after ship ping coal, provisions and medicines, is again at large in the Black Sea and that her destination is unknown.
 Whether the report of the sailing of the battleship be true or not, the crew took a remarkable step yesterday when, with all the selomnity of a provisional government, it issued manifesto, ad- dressed to the powers, announcing that civil war had begun against the exist ing regime in Russia and pledging the inyiolability of foreign shipping and foreign ports.
 This action doubtless was taken to quiet the apprehension of foreign pow CTS and to leave no excuse for the send- ing of warships through the Darda- ne1les to effect the capture of the bat tleship, which until now Russia's Black Sea fleet has not dared to attempt. It is considered a shrewd move on the part of the mutineers and stamps the commander of the crew as leader far above the class ofN the ordinary sailor, and strengthens the opinion that he is not a member of the original crew, but one of the revolutionaries who went on board at Odessa.
 The issuance of the manifesto lends certain dignity to the mutiny and proves that the crew and their com 1nander have no desire that the world should believe them to be mere outlaws, but that they should be looked upon as men raising the standard of revolu- ton. ~.-
 Nothing has been received to confirm the supposition that the request for a doctor at Theodosia indicated a strug- gfe for supremacy Oh board on the way from Kustenji.
 According to rumor printed in an afternoon paper the ships strong box contained $375,000 and the mutineers would, therefore, be well supplied with money.
 In circles closely in touch with the reyolutionists it is regarded as a fore gone conclusion that the commander of the Kniaz Potemkine will head for Poti or Batoum, where the revolutionists are exceedingly strong, in the hope of pro- ducing a general rising. With the au- thorities in the Caucasus almost pow erless to prevent it, such contingency is by no means impossible.
 Dispatches from Tiflis received last night say that reports of the rioting at Odessa and the action of the Kniaz Po- temkine have aroused the most intense interest and the widest joy among the revolutionists. The receipt of the re- ports was followed immediately by a complete strike, even the lamplighters quitting work. The city is in darkness and the inhabitants generally are flee ing to the northward.
 The Emperor Nicholas IT., the crew of which is reported to have mutinied at Constantinople, is a Russian mer- chantman.
 Considerable anxiety is felt because the cruiser Chernomoretz, which was due at Sebastopol Monday, has not yet arrived.
 Orders have not been restored at Bielostok. A censored telegram receiv- ed last night reports that shooting has been heard, that crowds are fleeing and that wild excitement prevails, but no details are given.