New-York tribune., 1906-08-01
REBELS HOLD SVEABORG
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a.stroyed the railroad az Riihioald. The Asso-
.,ssea Press IS resolving the freshest news OF
n, rnutiny by the roundabout means OF teye
,boning 70 viborg and telegraphlng from there
- Ct Petersburg This entails q delay o. several
sours.
Premier StOlypin has received many mos
xaass concerning the mutiny. He had h.s not
seuee than eight up TO o'clock last evening.
pe told a caller that the situation was critical
70 an extreme degree. Almost the entire fortress
vas in the hands OF the insurgents. and there
we're comparatively few loyal troops in Hell
ssnefors The entire socialist population Is led
~ the Red Guard.
The following dispatch has been received
sirect from Helsingfors. It is dated July 81,
2p. n:
A hundred revOiutionists. armed and half uni
so-7ned. have Just marched to the Socialist Club
socialist Red Guard mobilize and goin a move
Tnent 70 relieve the thousand marines who ara
held within Gordon in SkatudGen barracks by
the loyal troops The chiefs OF the Red Guard
are undecided whether 20 begin an armed up-
rising OF not, as many OF the population are
completely out Of sympathy with such move
The authorities apparently are paralyzed by
the suddenness OF the revolt. They were quite
IN ignorance as TO which troops could be de-
pended upon.
Two officers were killed at sl1atudden bv
marines this morning before large crowd OF
civilian sympathsZers.
Five thousand copies Of the appeal to the army
issued by members OF the former lower house OF
parliament have been conveyed 10 Cronstadt in
the night time in a rowboat pulled by two oars
men. Almost ali the copies had been distributed
before the authorities discovered what was
going on
The searchlights at Cronstadt are now turned
nightly on the surrounding waters.
special appeal 20 army officers is now being
formulated.
ominous discomfort is reported among the
troops al Tanaboff. in Central Russia
Maxim Kovalevsky. a member Of the outlawed
parliament from Kharkor. has received a mes
sage to the effect that the crews Of four war
ships at Helsingfors have mutfnied
Stockholm. July 31--The Helsingfors corre-
spondent Of a Swedish news agency says the
mutiny at Sveaborg was caused by the authori-
ties refusing to give the men brandy
Al me meeting OF ROEkLoen held in HelSiDg-
fors this afternoon It was resolved to declare a
general strike from day to day as long as such
action should prove necessary.
Another dispatch received here from Helsing-
fors says that the artillerymen joined the Svea-
borg mutineers. but that the infantry remained
loyal. The artillery trained guns on the loyal
troops. 500 OF whom were killed or wounded.
An outbreak also occurred this morning at
skatudden. The officers there were made pris-
oners and the soldiers elected leaders One
officer was killed. a Russian destroyer bonn
barded the barracks and the mutineers
sveaboTg is a strongly fortified town Of Russian
Finland, situated on seven islands in the Gulf Of
Finland. southeast of Helsingfors. The islands,
which are connected by pontoons form the site of
fortress which defends the harbor of Eelsingfors
and consists OF numerous military works and bat
tsfes and arsenal Svsabcrg also has an ex-
oeent harbor. The fortress was constructed in
T7l9. was betrayed TO the Russians May g. 1903 and
vas bOmbarded by an Anglo-French feet August
and 70. 1856. in the Crimean War.
The island OF Skatudden lies close TO the city of
Eelsingfors. with which it is connected by a short
bridge. II is half mile long and about quarter
of a mile wide and is given entirely to the
fortress. The government railway from ST. Peters
burg eIcircles the city and terminates on Skatud-
den Island The Skatudden fortress is about three
miles from Sveaborg.