Salt Lake Telegram | 1910-11-24 | Page 1 | Brazilian Battleship Crews Mutiny

i Ii r I BATTLESHiP CREWS Turn urn Guns on Loyal Ships Ship and on the City of Rio I I I Janeiro TROUBLE DECLARED NOT NOr POLITICAL Is Considered Protest of f th the Sailors Against Treatment by Their Officers r. L r I. I WASHINGTON Nov 21 J. J. J 21 J. J J the American consul I at Rio Janeiro today cabled the 4 state d nt that all aJ of the 4 seamen in t tile the e Brazilian navy na 4 4 had revolted rc and controlled all an 4 the the Ye vessel veel in Rio Ro Janeiro barb bar- bar b bor or I RIO DE JANEIRO Nov 24 2 The crews of two battleships of the Brazil Brazil- iari ia navy nav mutinied yest Brazi- Brazi Thou The I turned their guns on ou the loyal ships I and also threw a a few feir shoPs shells Into nt the thc city Several o officers were killed Fight Fight- I it t tg g continued hou the nigh but tIe tle remained in the possession posses sion uon of ot the two tco vessels To Today ay the battleships with wih mu mutinous mutinous JU tinous crews were wore anchored outside e the bar awaiting action acton I b by the he government Congress o JreEs was summoned in session at I 1 o o'clock this his h. h tj 11 l with fb the Tie Te censorship is mj cf f trouble bie an o L b be led at time It js is officially stated th I T is not cot ot of a 3 po political ical r a 1 be l. JC f r 1 0 t h. h to n apT adio 1 t t tt J a li t bo n t of iE T t J I Fo 01 tt the men f the navy Davy bad had be been been- n a agit attin the tho matter H ter of mOrEt pay They also objected to the ti tice tic c in h thc navy 19 J of or inflicting corporal on insubordinate or otherwise otherwise other other- wise vise Sailors Captain Killed The ma matter r came cam to in a ri hend v when wien the crews of two of o ton fb lar larger r e-r warships turned on their sU superiors It ItIs Itis is 18 reported that the captain of the tie battleship Mina Mba was killed the fi fighting the mutineers ma ina e a formal demand for increased pay and the abolition of corporal pun punishment and then thou withdrew to lo the thc outer harbor The mutineers expect con congress to piss priss a a masure this afternoon c granting grant grant- in ing them amnesty If H I this is done tho the trouble will rm be he at an end Should I congress s refuse fuse amnesty to the I tb the subsequent attitude of the latter is is i in Ilk doubt The situation is h tense and and there is considerable anxiety amou among the people of the city aty