Show attempted to enter the doumanian Rou manian port of torpedo boat kiib attempt to sink battleship kniaz bucharest roumania july 3 the russian torpedo boat no accompanying the kniaz attempted to enter the port of Kust enji today the doumanian Rou manian cruiser elizbetha fired on the boat but failed to hit her the torpedo boat then returned major the military commandant at Kusten jl reports that be was received on board the kniaz by an engineer cadet attended by a numerous guard the cadet informed him that the murder of the seaman was merely a pretext for the revolt all having been previously arranged by a revolutionary committee bucharest july 3 the port authorities ties at Kusten jl roumania have been instructed to call upon the mutineers muti who are on board the kniaz to land from that vessel without arms informing them that they would be treated as foreign deserters walls in roumania in the event of vie refusal of the mutineers muti to submit to these conditions or of hostile action against the town doumanian Rou manian warships were ordered to use force there la much excitement on board the russian battleship kniaz where differences of opinion exist between the leaders soma of whom advocate landing in roumania while others are proposing to return to russia and join the other mutinous ships the prefect of Kust enji permitted a delegation of the muti to enter the town and purchase provisions the steamers report that the black sea fleet not only did not try to capture the kniaz crews the ships openly rejoiced when the rebel battleship left odessa the crew of the russian gunboat now at Kusten jl met some of the crew of the niaz ashore aal frate d with them the sailors embracing one another the kniaz is accompanied compa nied by a russian torpedo boat about doumanian Rou manian soldiers are being concentrated at Kust enji to meet eventualities and the cabinet ministers are proceeding thera today to deal with the situation TURKS WATCHING MUTINEERS constantinople july 3 turkish officials at asia minor at the entrance of the are taking precautions to prevent the possible use of that port by the muti of the kniaz the turks vill not the battleship to pass through the after sunset they even stopped the russian at constantinople with a blank shell when returning with ambassador after a short cruise in the black sea M landed and proceeded to constantinople but the was held until morning london july 3 A private telegram received here today from odessa says the town Is quiet SITUATION ON ISTHMUS returning passengers declare conditions among canal workmen are serious new york july 3 wh tho panama steamship Segur anca came into port she brought the largest number of refugees from yellow fever and malaria that feny recent incoming vessel has yet carried there were cabin passengers aboard all the ship could hold and applicants tor passage back to the united states had been turned away by the dozen at colon those who cama brought unpleasant tales of the conditions existing all along the line of tho canal stories of sickness and sudden deaths of almost criminal negligence in caring tor employed emp loyes in the great work charges of all sorts against the officials in charge stories of favoritism blacklisting filth and hunger H king of stockton cal a canal employed emp loye said before our ship sailed forty three new cases of fever taken to the ancon hospital at panama for the past six weeks cases have been sent in to the hospital at the rate of forty to sixty a week deaths have avenged nearly five a day the hospital is crowded at the canal there is no system at all everybody is boss there is no discipline among the laborers nothing but bad housing bad food and discontent 1 I was there three months and never slept in a bad said harry brainerd of albany N Y all I 1 had was a rickety cot with an overcoat folded for a pillow my room was without windows the food was terrible most of us ato at the washington hotel where they charged 45 a month for food the meat was rotten and the fruit gave us dysentery the statements of other refugees correspond with what king and braan erd said when the morning papers were taken aboard at quarantine the passengers had their first news of the resignation of chief engineer wallace the comments they made were not particularly favorable to wallace ho did not do any work at all while he was there said one man we used to see him once in a while going through the culebra cut in an observation engine but he never stopped wallace was criticized criticised by others bo cause he tailed to stop tha blacklist system this system it la alleged makes it impossible for a caf to set employment after he resigns arom the culebra workings such a man is blacklisted as a discontented workman |