The Washington herald., 1907-06-23
KEY MUTINY FAILS
Sapper Battalion Refuses to
Respond to Signal.
RINGLEADERS QUICKLY SEIZED
Two soldiers Severely Wounded in
Checking Disorder - Commander
Thanks Troops on behalf OF CHar
for Remaining Loyal-CommisSI0n-
ed Officers of Regiments Cashiered-

ST. Petersburg, June "Details Of the
mutiny ut Kiev June II show that at
o'clock in the evening. at the camp of the
Forty-hrst Infantry Regiment Private
Scheytchenko. in accordance with a pre-
yiously agreed plan, fred several shots
as a signal to the soldiers to raise a
llutiny. The attempt failed and Schey-
tchenko and four accomplices were inn
mediatey seized. Two soldiers We're
severely wounded while the men were
being arrested Scheytchenko confessed
that he had three bombs concealed IN his
tent
The same evening, about midnight, sev-
elal shots were fred unexpectedly in the
camp of the Twenty-frst battalion OF
Sappers. A body Of troops thereupon
mutniod. forced the doors OF the arseuals,
and supplied themselves with cartridges.
The Fifth. sixth, Seventh, and Four
teonth Battalions of Sappors were or
dered TO suppress the outbreak. The mu-
tncers came into contact with the Four
tccuth Battalion and opened "a disordegiy
/ fire. killing Capt. Akulof. commander
of the Third Company of the Twenty
/ first Battalion. and mortally wounding
seigt Mai Ovsiannikoh, and wounding
/ four other soldiers.
/ Tie Fifth Battalion then arrived and
/ fired a v1lley. forcing the mutincers So
/ d.sperse. Many fed into the town. Those
! troops of the Twcnty-nrst Battalion who
/ remained in camp were Immediately dis
/ armed and confined in the barracks.
Commander Thanks Troops.
! Gen. Schmidt. who is in temporary
command of the troops. arrived June Is
at dawn. Ordering the Fifth Sixth.
/ Seventh. and Fourteenth battalious of the
/ Sappars' Brigade before him. ne thanked
/ the men in behalf of the Emperor for
/ remaining faithful to their oath. His
words We're received with cheers.
/ As result OF an inquiry into The affair
/ tle command O.. commissioned officers %.
/ the mutinous battalion has been cashierea
/ and the ucn-commissioned officers Nayt
/ been removed 20 other battalious Scouts
from the Tral Cossacks Regiment have
] been sent in search of mutineers who
N0. t'f.t aht -'' f''tn a-'Aattt.t h.t
! press are increasing The Moscow news
/ papers alone have been fined lnU0 roubIes
/ during the week.
l. Gar blamed by All.
The dissolution OF the D1uma was bad
but the breaking Of the Emperors prom
ise 10 the people and a change of the elec-
toral law was immcasurably worse. and
no party approves it, Even the reaction
aries declare they have lost rather than
gained one of the chief members of the
League Of Russian people. commonly
called the Black Hundred, said to-day.
Il consider that the third Doums vii
be far worse than the first two, because
in my opinion it's members will be chiefly
constitutional Democrats and Octobrists
who are Gar more dangerous opponents of
the God-given unlimited aut0cracy Of IN,
r sovereign than socialists or revolutionists
p Our ministers are so imbued with modern
liberal ideas that there - serious danger
Of their giving way 20 the demands OF
such a DOuma
/ This curious view Of the government i
a genuine expression of opinion as &
/ proved by the fact that the leaders o
p the league are issuing directions 70 th
; provincial branches 10 vote for candidate
OF the extreme left a. the coming DUum;
. elections, when it is certain that thei
? own candidates cannot be returned.
General Discomfort Grows.
The general discomfort Of the nation 81
as great as before the publication Of th
- famous October manifesto. The govern
] ment has nothing 20 depend upon eXcep
brute force and signs AT tia present tim
Of dissatisfaction in the army are in
i cTeasing.
Tie day after the mutiny at kiev dis
orders occurred in the crack regiment %
Elans at ErasnoieSeO Palace, where th
military maneuvers attended by the EN-
peror are usually held. That the militar
authorities are disquIeted by these mani
festations Of disloyalty is shown by al
imperial ukase issued to-day ann0uncin
the formation Of disciplinary battalion
of six companies at Medvied. in Nov
gorod province, where last year the dis
affected men of the PreObTasChensky reg
imcut, were sent.
The censorship on press kilograms fror
the provinces gives the public no chanc
Of learning the truth about the disorder
among the troops which are reporte
:, from the interior