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Show RUSSIA SEEMS IN LAST DITCH Efforts io Meet Crisis Are Frantic. Conditions Are Ripe for the Long-Predicted Revolution. Revo-lution. . Piofotind Feni Entet tainerl That Blue Jacket? Will Refuse to Fire on Mutineers ST. PETERSBURG, Juno SO, 2:61 a m Thn Russian Government; although it has been almost paralysed by tho terrible terri-ble events at Odessa and tho news that the sailors at Llbiu also hao mutinied. I making desperate nnd even frantlo efforts ef-forts to meet the situation and stnnip out the flames of revolution before they can spre.nl to the army, which Is now the last bulwark of tho autocrnc Eipe for Revolution, With Poland red with the spirit of revolt, re-volt, the "aucQ3Ui already almost ,ln a state of civil war, agrarian disorders spreading rapidly, the whole, country pio-foundly pio-foundly stirred and the IntolllUHiit classes solidly arrayed agninst the Government, all conditions seem ripe for the lonK-predlcted lonK-predlcted revolution. Threaten the Mutineers I The first act of the Government, oiler I dispatching Admiral Kruger's squadron fiom Sebastopol was to summon the ECnlai Potemkine, whose mutineers have now been Joined by the crews of the torpedo tor-pedo boats which accompanied It Lo Odessa, to surrender under the threat of ilrlng upon and sinking tho vessel This was followed by the declaration of martial mar-tial law at Odessa nnd Llbau and th clothing of the military commanders with plenary powers. Fear Army Sedition. t.rent fear Is expressed that many tegiments of the army are honeycombed with sedition nnd there Is pra'o doubt of ihelr loyalty should they be called upon to fire on the revolutionists. Indeed the most startling stories Involving ih un-rellablllty un-rellablllty Of the troops are being re-peated re-peated in St Petersburg but the truth of many of them is more than questionable; question-able; May Not Fire on Comrades. At the admiralty, where the temper of the Black sea sailors is known, the orders or-ders sent to Admiral Kruger s squadron were by no means unanimously approved. Among others Vlce-Admlral Skrydloff openly expressed th opinion - that the l.lnrt lar.L-nlo r.f I.'hii- a ahlna n-nolrl nr.t lire on their eomradi ' on hoard the Knlaz Potemkine but that, on the contrary they might revolt should they be ordered to shoot. IdmlTa Skrydlbff was of tho opinion that the best course would be to allow the crew of the !nla7. Potemkine to remain re-main on board until It had been atared Into submission. In this connection the story Is current thai the crew Of the battleship captured two English ships loaded with provisions jnd Is holding them uloiigslde. May Hnvfl Seized Other Ships As far ns known here dmlral Kruger although due at Odessa early last evening, even-ing, had no! arrived up t' midnight, and ! this gave rire to rumors that tho crews had actually seized the other ships of tho squadron. Dispatches received hen- from Odessa do not make the situation very clear. Millions of dollars worth of property. Including In-cluding ships, has been burned or otherwise other-wise destroyed. The clt Is terrof-strkk-,ii .uid many, probably hundreds, have been killed or wounded In the street lighting Fenr Troops Powerless Th f.n t that the troops and police in n)e no attempt to Interfere- with the burial of tho martyred sailor is consider consid-er ( to hi conclusive evidence that lhe either fell themselves powerless or f. and tiv, niakl the attempt on account of the attitude of the populace I'nder cover of the darkness produced by the dense pall of smoke hanging over the city, it Is reported the moh has begun to sack and plunder Foreign prnpertj has suffered heavijy. |