Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-06-20
MUTINY In RUSSIA
Revolt at Kiev Reveals General Feel
ing Of Unrest Among Troops.
rSBL00DY BATTLE AT MIDNIGHT
Seventy Men Killed Before the Up
n rising Was Suppressed.
PART OF PLAN FOR STRIKE
Move Intended to Concede with
Suspension of Work.
woRKMEN AT MOSCOW RESTLESS
COmmandnnt Forced TO Bring Infan-
try Into Place TO Overawe Men
-HRrsh Measures by
Government.
Move Intended to Concede with
Suspension of Work.
woRKMEN AT MOSCOW RESTLESS

ST. PETERSBURG. June 1o.-Detaiis Of
the mutiny OF sappers at Kiev show that
It was suppressed only after a bloody en-
gegement at midnight on June II between
the mutineers and loyal troops. in which
about seventy men were killed or wounded.
Kiev Is one Of the cities where revolu-
tionary ideas have made the greatest in
roads upon the army, and the revolution
airy military organization IL very power
full, counting among its members dozens
OF officers. The mutiny was planned to
coincide with q general political strike as
"a reply 10 the dissolution OF Parliament,
involving the railroads. telegraphs and
mails.
In several Of the southern provinces ar
rangements for the strike had been MAX
ing for months under the leadership Of an
experienced organizer, NJ Loskotj who
was a member Of the first Parliament.
The decision of the revolutionary stan at
st. Petersburg to refrain from demonstra-
tons was disobeyed by the hot-headed
sappers. At midnight OF June II 500 men
at given signal left their berths, dis
armed the sentries, hurriedly dressed, OBJ
tanned possession OF their rifles, broke
into the armory, secured some loaded
cartridges and then marched to the camp
square and fred q volley in the air. The
oficer on duty. Captain Akuloff, ran out
and addressed the mutineers. advising
them to disperse. He then called out an
other battalion, drew the men up and led
a charge on the mutineers, ordering them
TO surrender. Upon their refusal to DO SC
Captain Akuloff ordered the troops to fire
and Tell dead himself at the first voney.
The lghting continued for several min
utes. Half dozen others were killed and
about sixty were wounded. Finally the
mutineers. with no officers, no leaders and
no plans. wavered and fed. Two hundred
aud fifty were captured. but 1913 eluded
pursuit.
Leniency Cause of Trouble.
A The Novoe vremya. in an article this
Eiaorning on the mutiny at Kiev. attributes
the sedition in the army hrst to the cor
] ruption of the soldiers In ths Japanese
j prison; second to the presence of the Jews
in the army and third. to the leniency hith-
erto shown by the military authorities.
The paper claims however, that the propo-
Ganda has made but slight progress,
Trouble also has broken out among the
troops OF the Bird infantry division, sta
toned at Kaluga. General Orion, who
suppressed the insurrection In the Baltic
provinces, left st. Petersburg hurriedly
last night to take charge OF the garrison al
Kaluga. No information Il available as tc
the nature of the trobule, a strict censor
ship on all incoming press dispatches hav'
ing been instituted since the dissolution OF
Parliament. The dispatches OF the Associ-
ated Press from Kiev. detailing the mutinS
there, were turned over TO the censor and
held up for from twelve to fourteen hours
before they were delivered.
The workmen OF Moscow are becoming
restless and the commandant Of that city
has brought twenty-five companies of In
fantry into the place to overawe the men
Several big meetings OF workmen in this
Moscow suburbs have been broken up
wholesale arrests continue in st. Peters
burg.
The preparations for the registration fol
the election OF the new Parliament have
already begun.