The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-02
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others jumped overheard and swan
ashore OF three row boats which fol-
lowed the motor boat, one was cap
tured, one was sunk and one escaped.
Occasional shots We're heard from
the emperor's battery until the travel
er who furnished the above informa-
ton left Helsingfors at midnight in
dicating that the boldest of the mu-
tineers were determined to die rather
than surrender and that they were
selling their lives dearly.
Decide on General Strike.
London, Aug. "A dispatch 10
Reuters Telegram company from st
Petersburg says that an extra ordinary
conference of all the revolutionary
bodies today decided upon a general
strike. the exact date and hour to be
settled at a meeting tonight, and that
in the meantime the railways and fac
tories have been ordered to prepare
for future events.
History of Cronstadt Rising.
St. Petersburg, Aug. IA correspond
ent of the Associated Press who at
tempted to reach Cronstadt from OIien-
baum on the Gulf of Finland, opposite
Cronstadt, found the place almost in a
state of panic. All communication with
the island of Cronstadt was interdicted.
People arriving there were searched and
arrested.
From informa ton obtained of refu-
gees officers and others, a fairly clear
The sailors of the Twentieth and other
equipages. together with the sappers
and miners, pioneers and other units
managed to rise in spite of the surveii-
lance of the guard and other regiments
which were stationed at the barracks,
plainly indicating treachery. This sus-
picion is heightened by the fact that
the commander disarmed the SyeoelS
regiment
A plot had been carefully planned by
which the mutineers obtained possess
sion Of the train steamer. Then without
lights they ran train to the bridge
separating the island from TT Con-
stantine which with the evident con-
nivance of the sentinels they had no diff
ficulty in entering The main body of
the fortress artillery in the fort joined
the mutiaeers and those who did not do
so were bound and gagged. The mutt
neers turned some of the guns Of the
fortress on the camp of the loyal troops
in the city and opened fire on the latter
with the preconeeived intention of COW
ering the escape of the train steamer
which sailed around in a protected posi-
ton under the guns of the fort.
Until the guns opened the whole
affair was conducted so quietly that
the commander of the fortress had no
suspicion Of what had happened.
was sounded and the entire garrison
was called out While a portion of
loyal troops took up positions in the
streets, which were already filed
with terror-stricker Inhabitants
storming party consisting of three
regiments of grenadiers. the Yenexf,
Simonovsky and Vinlandsky. was
formed and led to the assault. After
four volleys had been fred the mu-
tineers hoisted the white flag and
those who refused to surrender vera
hastily dispatched. Meanwhile the
waiting steamer sailed off in the dlrec-
ton of the Finnish coast. Later ma
chine guns were posted in the main
streets.
No mercy was shown to those sus-
pected of being agitators, and a num-
Der of innocent persons are reported
to have been killed. This morning
when the Grand Duke Nicholas
Nicholavitch commander-in-chi of
all the troops in the st. Petersburg
district, was informed of what had
transpired he was furious. and ac-
cording to informa ton obtained at
Orienbau UNI. he Immediately ordered