The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-06-26
BLOODY BATTLE.
The Legal Troops Win After a
Very Fierce Battle.
DETAILS OF MEETING.
In Which Seventy Men Are Killed
and q Large Number Are Wound
ed:-Tiie Mutiners Arose at a Civ
en- Signal, and Broke Into the Ar
mory and Seized Rifles and Fired
a VoMsy.

m0ry and Seized Rifles and Fired
a VoHsy.
4 dispatch from st. Petersburg
Russia; says details of the mutiny OF
Sappers at Kiev show that it was
suppressed at midnight, June Il. be-
tween the mutineers and the loyal
troops, in which about seventy men
were killed or wounded.
Kiev is one OF the cities where rev.
olutionars ideas have made the
greatest inroads on the army and
revolutionary military organization
is very powerful. counting among its
members dozens OF officers.
The mutiny was planned to coin
eide with general political strike
as a reply to the dissolution Of parli-
ment, involving the railroads, tele-
graphs and mails. In several Of the
southern provinces arrangements for
the strike had been making for
months under the leadership Of an
experienced organizer, N. Loskoti,
who was member of the first par
lament.
The decision of the revolutionary
staff at St. Petersburg to refrain from
demonstrations was disobeyed by the
hot-headed sappers. At midnight OF
June II, 500 men, at given signal.
left their beds, disarmed the sentries.
hurriedly dressed. obtained posses
sion Of their rifles. broke into the
armory, secured some loaded cartrld-
ses and then marched to the camp
SQUARE and fired volley in the air.
The officer on duty, Captain Aku-
loft, ran out and addressed the NUT
iners, advising them to disperse. he
then called out another battalion.
drew the men and led a charge on
the mutiners, ordering them to sur
render. On their refusal to do So.
CAPTAIN Akuloff ordered the troops
to FIRE and fell dead himself at the
first yolley The fighting continued
for several minutes Half dozen
others were killed and about Sixty
were wounded. Finally the mutl-
neers, with no officers, no leaders and
no plans, waxered and fed- Two nun
dren and fifty were captured but one
hundred and nine-three eluded pur-
suit and hid in the city.
The mutiny at kiev was arranged
by Shefch Evko. a revolutlon1sI OF
GOOD family, who entered the army
as a volunteer for the purpose OF
undermining discipline and won over
many of his comrades but when ne
raised the standard of revolt tneE
we're frightened and the little oano
of rine-leaders were overpowereG.
Three bombs were found IN Shefch
Ecko's tent. All the mutlners VIII
be tried by courtmartial. ~
The workmen emplcyed 10 ois
factory at Kiev struck after the NUT
inv, but they have not yet been JoIh-
ed by the employees Of other 1acIol-
les.
General Sukhmlinoff, the comman-
dor of Kiev, is taking the mooerate
energetic measures to arrest the ieao.
ers Of the movement. HUNDREDS OF
bonses have been searched ana %
citizens have been arrested, ainons
them being officials Of the railway
and telegraph service and the eoltors
of a newspaper.
Numerous other arrests we're inaos
in Kiev, and a number OF oomps "ei'
fopn6. but order is now restored :,
The city is in the hands OF the lnii
itary ..;o,a .,
The Novo vremaya i'll an artlcie OF
rho mutiny at Kiev attributes tn
sa6;tion of the amy by the corrup
lion of soldiers in the japanese prls
ons. second. to the presence OF Je"
IN The army: and third, to the len
;encv hitherto shown by the ml!ltar
authorities. The paper CLAIMS nov
ever, that the propaganda mas Ai''o
but slight progress. 49,,
Trouble has also nroheh 80
among the troops OF the Thlrd lh.an "a. a.
try division. stationed at ha!"S' s.
General Orloff. who suppressed el
inenrrection in the Baltic province =,
iaft St Petersburg hurriedly 10 tan
charge Of the garrison at halusa
No information is avaliaoie as
the nature of the troubles. sur. =;
censorship on all incoming press s;nc a.:
narches having been Instituted slne
the dissolution Of the paraam amen en-,
The dispatches of the Assoola.s =,
Press from Kiev. detailing ths - ~, -,
i+v there. was turned over 10 tIle ~, 70,
sor and held up from y 10 ~"
before they were delivered J.,
The workmen OF MOSCOW ~,
coming restless and the colnlna,.>ls,s .1i Tu
of that city has brousnt tNeoe n,sc
companies of infantry lnto .ne -! :, pa en
Several big meetings OF "orAItiS,. ,,nol
the Moscow suburbs have oeeN y "
en- up. -;,,e in s
potarshnrg The preparation OF u
resistration lists for the election
+to now parliament NAY