Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-03

Constantine and Alexander at Cronstadt
received. previous to the mutiny, the fol-
lowing telegram in cipher from SveaboIg:
Prepare yourselves to receive a free
fleet We hope to find you friends and
A reply was sent in the desired sense
and chiefs were chosen from amongst the
sailors after the latter had expelled their
officers.
According to the afternoon papers six
ofhctrs were killed during the suppression
Of the mutlny at Cronstadt, including Col
onel Alexandreff and nine were wounded
but II is added the casualties among the
rank and file on both sides were much
| lighter than reported
The number OF the mutineers is given at
$500, of whom 2,00 were sailors.
The Associated Press was officially in
formed by the Admiralty that only four
officers were killed and four were wounded
at Cronstadt. No figures regarding the
loss in the rank and file were given.
situation is Changed.
The collapse OF the mutiny at sveaborg,
coupled with the breakdown OF the plans
| Of the revolutionists to secure possession
OF the Baltic squadron and provoke an i'm
| mediate rising at Cronstadt greatly
! changes the situation. The spirits OF the
| government officials have risen and those
! OF the revolutionsts are correspondingly
| depressed and the arrangements for order
ing a general strike on Saturday may be
] countermanded. The strike in Finland is
already a failure. owing to the fact that
| the more intelligent OF the Firms did not
support It. as they realized that by placing
themselves at the head OF a purely Russian
! revolutionary movement they might Justify
reprisals and jeopsrdize their newly
granted liberties ....-.
The latest reports show that all the ru-
mors to the effect that the Baltic squadron
| was in the hands of the mutineers were
untrue. When the mutineers, who were led
| by aRitators from the shore and who be-
| lieved that the squadron was coming to
rescue, found that hope in that direc-
ton was crushed, dissenslons broke out
among them and they turned their guns
on each other. Those who were deter
mined to die rather than surrender fired
into the ranks of their more faint hearted
comrades, who hoisted the white flag
Men Not Paid.
A traveller who left Helsingfors at mid
night gave the Associated Press a history
Of the whole affair, which was precipitated
by trouble over money due to 200 of the
| sappers and miners. Social democrats and
social revolutionary agitators, who were
! spreading their propaganda among the
troops, promptly seized on the occasion 10
organize a big conspiracy. They told the
soldiers that the tip had come to put an end
TO the old regime; that a general strike in
Russia had been declared and that rising
OF the garrisons of Cronstadt. Sveaborg
and Sevastopol would be Immediately fol-
lowed by mutinies OF the Baltic and Black
sea fleets. and that from the bases thus
obtained the government could be given it's
death blow. The soldiers listened to the
preachings of the agitators and men he
longing TO the socialistic Red Guard were
introduced into the forts by the mainland
On Monday night the soldiers mutinied
and made a prisoner of General ARsfeff
their commander, seized the machine gums
and the guns in the batteries on three OF
the islands and elected a directing com
mittee' headed by lyon. an ex-reserve ON
Ger.
Omcers shot
The mutineers then shot three i,r,or
Officers and afterwards fired from the en-
perors battery upon the residence OF the
commandant OF the fortress The latter
had with him the entire Sveaborg regiment
which not only replied with the field gums
at their disposal, but proved their LOYALTY
by making an attempt to capture the nosi-
ton OF the mutineers at the point of ,hs
bayonet This attempt. however. was re-
pulsed with the fire OF rapid-nre guns. The
next morning the sailors at the barracks
at skatudden. at the instigation Of the
Red Guard. Joined the mutiny and hoisted
the red nag.
The garrison OF the city had hAen re-
. dueed 10 two regiments Of infantry and
two sauadrons of Cossacks when the mu-
tiny occurred and owing to the activity N
revolutionsts and the panic in the city 1,
; was decided to await achievements OF
troops and machine guns from ViIIman-
strand, In the meantime during the dav
the fire Of the torpedo cruiser Finn made
a breach in the walls of the barracks al
skatudden and at nishtfalI the majority
OF the mutineers there surrendered. The
I remainder escaped.
/ The Officers killed at Cronstadt were Can.
4 tains Rsvinooff Debrovslsky and shunofl
e OF the navy and Captain .stolannovsky OF
; the artillery. Admiral Beskiwishen was
E wounded in the back by bayonet thrust.
Quiet at SveaborE.
r HELsINGFoRs, Finland, Aug. 2-TherS
2 was no firing at sveaborg or the Other
I islands in the vicinity during the night Of
: this morning and no definite news has beer
3 received today from the scene Of tn,
: mutiny. The ofheials decline to make an,
e statements. but It is asserted from a re
liable source that the mutineers, with tn,
: exception Of few on the smaller islands
e who have a few guns. have surrendered
The prisoners are being landed IN patches
guarded by loyal troops. They are suller
:. ana seem to have little thought OF IN,
, punishment which awaits them.
n DeShlREaF Mutineers Surrender.
TIFLIs, Caucasus. Aug. 2.-Upon the ar,
a rival OF a detachment OF COssacks Tn,
companies Of the SamuE regiment at Desh
lagar, commanding the famous iron Eat
$ at Derbent, which had mutinisd. surren,