Show CRUSHED BY WARSHIPS Mutineers Were Victorious in the First Skirmishes Aug 3 The correspondent of f the tho Associated Press was permitted to today toda today day da to look over the fortress on the main island as well as all the other fortifications fortifIcatIons fortifications overlooking the town although the theof officials of Ie 10 Is who vho complied compiled with his request were careful not to allow him to see the guns The he scene proved the truth of the state statements statements ments previously previous cabled that the muti mutineers mutineers mutineers had the upper hands in practically all the fortresses until the arrival of the warships Escorted by an officer the correspond correspondent ent was shown all the minor barracks and fortifications and ana the wharf and neighboring quays which bristled with machine guns Flagstaffs had been splintered splintered splintered as HS If the mutineers had tried to shoot hoot away the Russian colors The most severe fire from the fortress was directed on the headquarters of the commander who on the second day d of the battle was I forced forcel to seek slicker shelter in a better pro protected protected protected place Barracks in Ruins The he barracks in the vicinity showed plainly pl the effects of the fighting They The Theare are aie today nothing more than tottering ruins upheld by iron girders The In which hangs the memorials or of the French and English bombardment of was struck several times Umes but it Is evi ei evident eident dent that the mutineers did not wish ish lo to destroy the building in spite of the fact that none of its window windows remain whole Results R of the firing ere re seen on every band liand fragments of shrapnel shot and ani shell littering all the walkways The rhe fortress itself bore many signs of the bombardment great rents in the walls holes In the roof and destroyed windows tolling telling their own tales The correspond correspondent ent was not permitted to examine in d de detail tail the fortifications held by the rebels as fiS these form part of the national defense and are secret Warships Saved the Day There is no question that until the war warships warships warships ships came up the government was pow powerless powerless erless adequately to reply to the muti mutineers mutineers mutineers and was simply able to hold its positions The commander had scarcely fled from his headquarters leaving them thema a heap of fallen ruins when the warships crept up the coast and opened fire Taken unawares without leaders and with but little food the mutineers gave up It now transpires that there were two officers cers eelS among the mutinous men Lieutenant and md Lieutenant noff The f latter was wounded Kohonsky gave him hini himself r self up to the and asked par v N don donA A special court is coming here from St Petersburg next week to try the pris prisoners One hundred men are confined in and The casual ties is not yet et known but men are re missing It is impossible to say ay how many were wore wounded As previously cabled in m these dispatches only five officers were killed |