Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-08-04

st. Petersburg-S Petersburg Is
anxiously awaiting news or the out
come of the battle between the mu-
tineers and the government forces at
Syeaborg. No definite information
has hosu roeoived owing to the dam
age done to the land telegraph wires.
The advices received by the govern
ment by wireless have not been di-
Vulged.
1t is reported from Viborg here
that the Russian notilla stationed at
Hango, Finland, has mutinied, i'm
prisoned the officers and has sailed
to the assistance of the mutineers to
Sveaborg.
The utmost importance is attached
to the conduct of the fleet. Accord
ing to semi-ofiicial intimation the
crews are still under the control of
their officers, but private advices say
that some members of the crews
have been confined below decks for
fear of mutiny. There is a rumor
in circulation here that four of the
ships Of the Baltic squadron We're in
complete mutiny and roaming at
large in the gulf of Finland, and that
the commandant at Cronstadt had
been notified to be prepared for anat-
tack by these vessels.
1t is worthy of note that a dis
patch to an official agency from Hell
singfors announcing the arrival of
the fleet off Sveaborg and the fact
that it opened fire, does not mention
what it opened fire against.
Vice-Admiral Birileff has presuma-
bly, gone to Heislngfors to assume
personal command of the fleet, as it
now develops that grand duke Alex
der Michaelovitch, the emperors
brother, is not with the fleet as pre-
viously reported, but at Gatchina
with the empress dowager.
The most intense anxiety still pre-
walls with regard to a possible uprls-
ing at Cronstadt and the general
spread of the revolt through the en-
tire naval establishment. 1t is said
that the authorities at Cronstadt re.
ceived timely warning of the events
at Sveaborg and nipped a possible
revolt in the bud They had the sit
uation well in hand Tuesday night,
and quietly placed detachments of in
fantry at the doors of the marine
barracks and removed the carbines
from the racks.
Wednesday morning the 1900 sail
ors composing the 7th equipage,
quartered at Cronstadt, whose loyal
ty had been questioned, found them
selves prisoners. The streets are
swarming with troops of the loyal
guard regiments, and the newly ar
rived men of the oath division, who
serve to overawe the disaffected ele-
ments.
The commandant at Cronstadt or
deTed the confisCation of newspapers
from st. Petersburg in order to pre-
vent the news of the outbreak at
Sveaborg from reaching the islanders
A group of agitators who went to
Cronstadt attempted to hold meetings
and communicate news of the Svea-
borg happenings They fed, how
ever, before the leveled rifles of the
soldiers.
The officers of the navy department
at Cronstadt are besieged by the
wives and relatives of officers on
board the ships at Helsingfors, who
are frantic over the reports that the
crews had arisen and killed their SUI
periors.
The general telegraph Office Of st.
Petersburg and surrounding build
ingS were OccuDied bY detachments
Of guards just before midnight.
The authorities evidently feared a
general attempt to cut cOmmunica-
tion between the capital and the In
terror.