Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-01
BULLETIN.


LONDON July s1.-A dispatch received
here by news agency from Hesingfors
dated July 81 says fierce fighting broke
out again tonight in the sveaborg fortress
and is still proceeding.
ST PETERSBURG, Aug. mo report OF
the suspension of the great revolt of the
garrison at Sveaborg fortress, the Glib
raltar of the North has been received in
St. Petersburg up to this hour.
The secondary uprising among the ma
rines and troops stationed at Skatudden
! barracks. on the peninsula communicating
with the mainland. crushed out at
! late hour yesterday afternoon by loyal
/ troops after heavy firing, in which eleven
cruisers, destrcyers and torpedo boats par
/ ticipate
! The sound OF firing on the islands and
( from the fortress has ceased, and in spite
/ Of the fact that the occupation OF the en-
/ tire water front by Cossacks prevents the
! obtaining of positive news. it is announced
/ at Helsingsfors that the mutinous artil-
! lerymen and sappers still are holding their
! positions The outlying islands and the
! fortress appear 70 be in their possession,
/ and they have practically all the machine
! guns quick hrers and movable artillery of
! the fortress
| General Laiming, the commandant Of the
/ fortress. is holding on to the main fort on
! Commander Island with a force of loyal in
fantry.
General strike Declared.
/ A general strike was declared in Hels-
ingfors by the socialist workmen today
/ All factories have been closed.
The last direct dispatch from the cor
respondent of the Associated Press which
has Just arrived here, was eleven hours
/ nh
spondent said that the red guard" the
armed socialist legion, was contemplating
an armed uprising TO attempt the release
! of the prisoners captured in the Skatudden
! barracks.
Owing to the cutting OF telegraph wires
by the flying expedition of the red guard"
which destroyed the railroad at Rihioaki,
the Associated Press is receiving the news
OF the mutiny by the roundabout means of
telephoning to Viborg and telegraphing
from there to st. Petersburg. This entails
a delay Of several hours.
The military authorities received tele-
gram from Helsingfors this morning from
Major General Laiming announcing that
the fortresses and artillery had opened fire
on Commander island The insurgents
seized artillery, all the machine guns and
took possession of one Of the islands Some
Of the telegraph wires have been cut.
Major General Laimlng announced that
he himself was on Commander island with
four companies of the garrison and two
companies of sharp shooters sent from Hell
singfors. He does not give the number of
casualties.
Premier stolypin also has received fire.
quent messages concerning the mutiny He
told a caller that the situation was critical
to an extreme degree. Almost the entire
fortress is in the hands OF the insurgents
and there was compare lively few loyal
troops in Hesingfors. The entire socialist
population is led by the red guard"
Part of Gigantic Plot.
HELSINGFORs. July "A gigantic mil
itary conspiracy aiming at the simultaneous
capture Of Russia's three great sea fort
resses Cronstadt, Sebsstopol and Sveaborg,
arranged by the revolutionary military
league was prematurely sprung here last
night by attempt to arrest members of
a company of sappers who had mutinied
on account Of the death OF one of their
comrades alleged to have been Hue TO i'll
treatment
The entire garrison OF the fortress at
Sveaborg famed out instantly in revolt All
the artillery men and sappers garrisoning
the place were involved. Only four COM
panies Of infantrymen remained loyal. The
mutlneers seized forty machine guns and
practically all the quick firers and light
artillery in the fortress, but even with this
aid they were unable 70 hold the main fort
against the loyal infantry. The hghting
continued all night long. The heaviest
firing was heard from 10 o'clock in the
evening until 10 in the morning
This morning a detachment of civilian
revolutionaries seized the marine barracks
on Skatudden Island, hosted the red flag
and were Joined by all the marines Nine
cruisers torpedo boats and destroyers lying
I'm the harbor opened fire on the barracks
This fire was answered from the third
story windows OF the barracks with ma
chine guns and rides. The torpedo boats
and destroyers. which were lying closer to
= the shore, were subjected to such hot
= fire from the barracks that their crews were
driven below decks. They finally steamed
. out and Joined in the bombardment with
the cruisers The sea attack was in CO.
operation with attacks by COssacks and in
fantrymen from the land side. which began
at 2 O'Clock in the morning and continued
3 through the whole day. Finally, towards
evening the firing ceased and the author
titles announced that the barracks had been
captured.
At o'clock in the afternoon the Cossacks
cleared the square In front OF the palace
facing sveaborg and then drove the public
from the entire water front for the purpose
OF preventing the sending of assistance
from the city to Sveaborg.
The exact situation at SveaborR is NOT
known. Rumors are in circulation that the
entire fortress has now fallen into the
hands Of the insurgents, but they lack con.
hrmation. II is believed that this cessation
: OF hghting is only prelude to the renewal
Of the battle between the mutineers and
a the government troops.
Loss of Life Heavy.
i An authoritative estimate of the killed
and wounded cannot be obtained. but
T. the casualty list on both sides must be
I heavy. for the hghting was waged with
Z desperation.
Various TumOrs are heard regarding the
= fate OF the ofhcers who were at Sveabors
}, and in the skatuddsn barracks. According
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