New-York tribune., 1906-08-04
THE PAMYAr AzovA MuT1NY.
Eight Officers Escaped-Details Of the
Capture at Reval.

St Petersh,rc Aug 3-The accounts received
here of the mutiny on the arnlored cruiser ram
vat Azova off the Esthonian coast on August H.
show that the sailors expected 70 OBTAIN tle
support of the garrison of the fortress OK HeVaL
a student agitator probably of the ennis
saries sent from ST. Petersburg was slowed
away OF, board. When the crew nsutinied after
midnight Wednesday the cruiser was anchored
twenty miles down the coast. Evidently her
commander Captain Sosinsky, had learned what
was going on for he arrested and sent ashore
a sailor named Tarosoff. who was Segarded as
being the ringleader. Two hours afterward the
sailors rose, entered the cabin and killed Cap
tain Saborovsky. When he saw the mutineers
approaching, the captain made a rush for the
carbine rack. but the sailors had damned the
breech blocks of the carbines and Captain Sa-
borovsiy was shot
The firing aroused the officers below, who ran
on deck crowded into launch moored along
side and started for the shore. The mutineers
Immediately loaded a rapid-fire gun and also
manned cutter and put off in pursuit of the
launch. Lieutenant Unknovsky and two other
officers were killed by a shell from the cruiser
and others were wounded. The mutineers in
the cutter were rapidly oyerhauljng the launch.
when on reaching shallow water. the surviving
officers jumped into the bay and made for the
shore An attempt was made TO drag with them
one OF their wounded comrades, but he was
finally abandoned and drowned Eight officers
escaped.
The nutineers headed the cruiser for Reval
Her consort, a torpedo boat followed under fire
from the Pamyat Azova, but was not hit, as she
succeeded in keeping out of range.
Arriving at Reval. some Of the mutineers put
off in boat for the fortress in order 20 request
the artillerymen 10 join them. but the authorl-
ties had been informed of what had happened,
and the mutineers We're arrested they landed.
This being seen from the cruiser, the main body
of the crew, who seemed TO have remained neu-
trial. suddenly turned on the mutineers, over
powered them, replaced the red flag at the mast
head with white flag and sent word ashore
that the mutineers were confined below decks
whereupon the Governor General sent off soldiers
in boats and the mutineers were taken ashore.
About one hundred and fifty sailors were ar
rested, and number of students found among
the crew were also made prisoners.
The Pamyat Azova was the cruiser on which
Emperor Nicholas, then heir TO the throne, made
a voyage to the Far East in 1898.
London, Aug. S.-A dispatch TO news agency
from Reval says that in the nutiny on the Pam
yat Azova five officers a doctor, engineer
and a subaltern were killed. One officer was
mortally wounded and two officers were slightly
wounded. About fifty seamen were killed or
wounded.
Helsngfors Aug. 3.-The Parnyat Azova, after
the crew mutinied, spoke the steamer Salinea
between this port and Reval. The mutineers
ordered the Salinea to stop. and asked for news
from Sveaborg evidently with the intention OF
going there. When informed that the mutiny
at Sveaborg was over the Pamyat Azova was
headed for Reval.
The battIeships Slava and Czarevich were sent
from here in pursuit OF the Pamyat Azova.