The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-08-02
MUnNY At SVEADORGFOR1
.ARTlLLERYMEN TURN GUNS ON
LOYAL lNFANTRYMEN.
wARsAlps RomgARD FORTRESS
Civilian RevoIutionaries Seize Marine
Barracks on skatudden lsland-Lat-
est Report Indicates That Mutineers
Are Still in Possession.

Helsingfors, Aug 1.-Sveaborg is
entirely in the hands of the mutineers,
who now have in their possession
every kind of armament. Horrible
scenes occurred during last night,
when the fierce fighting was contin-
ued. The heaviest artillery was used
during the conflict. Several officers
were killed or wounded. The wound
ed were transported to Helsingfors.
Colonel Nataroff was bayoneted. He
begged for transportation to the hos
pital. promising forgiveness in ex-
change. Instead he was stoned and
thrown into the water with a stone
tied around his neck.
Helsingfors, Aug. IA gigantic
military conspiracy, aiming at the
simultaneous capture of Russia's
three great sea fortresses, Cronstadt,
Sebastopol and Sveaborg, arranged
by the revolutionary military league,
was prematurely sprung here by an
attempt to arrest members of a COM
pany of sappers who had mutinied on
account of the death of one of their
comrades. alleged to have been due
to i'll treatment. The entire garrison
OF the fortress at Sveaborg famed
out instantly in revolt All the artil-
1erymen and sappers garrisoning the
place were involved. Only four com.
panies of infantrymen remained loyal.
The mutineers seized forty machine
guns and practically all the quick
firers and light artillery in the for
tress, but even with this aid they
were unable to hold the main fort
against the loyal infantry. The fight
ing continued all night long.
A detachment of civilian revolu-
tionaries seized the marine barracks
on Skatudden island, hoisted the red
flag and we're Joined by all the ma
rines. Nine cruisers, torpedo boats
and destroyers lying in the harbor
opened fire on the barracks. This fire
was answered from the third-story
windows Of the barracks with machine
guns and rifles. The torpedo boats
and destroyers, which We're lying
closer to the shore, were subjected to
such hot fire from the barracks
that their crews We're driven below
decks. They finally steamed out and
joined in the bombardment with the
cruisers. This sea attack was in co
operation with attacks by Cossack
and infantry from the land side. Fl
nally the firing ceased and the au
AZ
had been captured.
The Cossacks cleared the square il
front of the palace facing Sveabors
and then drove the public from tn
entire water front for the purpose o
preventing the sending of assistanc
from the city to Sveaborg.
The exact situation at Sveaborg
not known. Rumors are in circuls
ton that the entire fortress has no,
fallen into the hands of the insu
gents. but they lack confirmation.
is believed that this cessation of figh
ing is only prelude to the renews
of the battle between the mutinee1
and the government troops.
An authoritative estimate of tn
killed and wounded cannot be oil
tanned, but the casualty list on bot
sides must be heavy, for the fightin
was waged with desperation.
Various rumors are heard regar,
ing the fate of the officers who wei
at Sveaborg and in the Skatudde
barracks. According to one rumo
almost all the officers, and accordin
to another, almost all the junior of
GERS sided with the mutineers.
The marines at Skatudden are sal
to have convened an elective cour
martial, which condemned several o
fcers to instant execution.