Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-01-27
MUTINY AGAIN
IN VLADIVOSTOK
UPRISING REPORTED TO BE
SERIOUS
Both Sailors and ArtIlIerymen In-
eluded, and They Have Possess
sion Of Battery and
Small Arms
BY Associated Press.

by Associated Bresg-
ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 26.-That
there has been renewal Of the mutiny
at Vladivostok was confirmed by n dis
patch from that city filed Thursday
and received here late tonight. The
dispatch indicates that the mutiny.
which began Monday, had not been
subdued and that the situation was far
more serious than was the outbreak in
November, as the mutlneers include
both sailors and artillerists, who are In
possession of the Holy Innocent bat
terry and are well armed with rifles and
machine guns as we'll as having heavy
fortress guns.
Gen. Mistchenko, who has been sent
to deal with the mutineers, the dis
patch adds. has no easy task. as the
Cossacks given him are ill-suited for
capturing a fortified position. He de-
| clares that the promises of immediate
| transportation home for the men with
which the government ended the former
revolt are now scarcely effective.
| The telegram says nothing about the
number of the mutineers or the atti-
tude of the garrison as whole.
| The number of casualties in q fight
on Tuesday, when a column of sailors,
in advancing on the commandments
house, was scattered by machine guns.
Is not stated In the dispatch and there
IL no mention in 1t Of the destruction
of property.
The war officials are unable to give
particulars of the seriousness of the
mutiny, which is due to the reserve
men, who are thoroughly undisciplined
and are clamoring for their immediate
transportation home, though the gov
ernment has given them precedence
over the trans-Siberian railroad in ad-
dition to chartering all the available
steamers for this purpose.
Railroad communication with the
Caucasus has been restored. The rev
olutionists of Guerina and Mingrelia
are retiring to the mountains, obsti
nately resisting the advance of the
troops. The revolutionists who were
driven from Kwirila rallied yesterday
and fought a regular battle with the
advancing troops. Several other en-
counters are reported. Several towns
are in flames. The troops are said TO
be astonished at the f1rmness of the
revolutionists. who have cavalry as
\ well as infantry. Two companies of
troops besieged at Kwirila have been
| disarrned. The captain in command has
| been killed.
"A IeNOIuIlOH ndS DTOheIl OuL III
northern Caucasia. The mountaineers
around Ekaterinodar have risen and
are making frequent attacks.
AdviceS from EkaterinoSlav, South
Russia, say that the inhabitants of sew
eral villages in that vicinity have been
engaged in various eXcesses, making
it necessary to employ artillery to sub
due them. The troops captured a bar
rlcaded school in which the leading
revolutionists had sought refuge.
The government has been relaxing its
repressive measures since January %.
Many persons have been arrested, but
released, and the right of assembly will
be restored.
Father Gapon, who had been warned
not to appear in st. Petersburg until
January %, Is returning to Russia.
Leniency will also be shown in the case
of the sentences imposed upon Prof.
Hodski and NJ Katelnikoff, editors of
the Nasha Shisn, for publishing the
manifesto of the workmen's council.
They will be left off with fines of $3.50
instead of terms of Imprisonment.