| Show i WEt S Or OF MURDER AND LOOT I Convict Population of Alexan Post Break Loose From All Restraint APPLY TORCH TO BUILDINGS Drink Themselves Into a Wild Fury and Vent Passions in Pillage and Rapine 11 ase Hie Ihl Nets Nev O n mm Warm lout liy by II Setting Sell I hg to Ii IiI Police I ol Ice I I l man ers ersa i a St 81 Petersburg April 2 Corre of oC the Associated AH Press Related letters from from 1 post I In Sakhalin I n arriving a cc in tnt the th t tie hunt Hist mull after aftem months month of Interruption bring a tt I wild stud picture of ot the time three weeks of or murder murdel mid IHl loot following tilt limo pi of lC and time the evacuation tion thOm by time the Japanese of oC the time northern half of oC the Island 1 land The lime lh wilder spirits among it html 0 g the I lie prisoners criminal mid political who ho form practically the en time the population lit post J loose loo front from all itil restraint applied time the torch to 10 build buildings tugs ings drunk themselves into a 1 wild fury nud vented them the If In itt pillage and amid murder Owing to 10 the fierce Oc October 0 October i tober lober the ships containing the troops dispatched d to take possession po ep lun of 0 the time Island were driven oft the I and nun Col Cal time the military gov gos governor ItO landed with nn aim escort ellort of oC only oni RO 50 men a n scanty scant force Corco with whim which to face hundreds of or desperate convicts during the three weeks before betre further t mops were Vero able aMe to Ii A WARM These e convicts prepared n mm I warm wel mei welcome come for tor time tilE new mw governor setting fire Im the them day da he landed to the police pollee head heath quarters and amid time the great prIson on 10 tO separate buildings l with sith ac ae accommodations for fOl thousands and of oC prison prisoners ers erR These Th pe were complete consumed The fhe Japanese baring haIng allowed the time brim engines to useless hut by hy the tho th strenuous exertions of lit the time Russian and Japanese wino who ho worked skin side by br side lItle and Inel amp tho tIme city to prevent further the tit was WIS l ly I checked The next day tho the troops returned having first sold lold their 11 stocks of oC and liquor at InI low loss prices casks cask of or sac ac ordinarily sold for 15 33 G going for 10 JO cents cases of tinned d meat macat contain ing In 75 pounds for Cor BO 50 cents and tons 1 of or rice and buckwheat being disposed of or In H it lump for Everybody I ry bod be b came amI drunk and with provisions enough for tou the thu th winter no mm necessity for tor many of kept up tho time de bauch for or weeks week lOkI GO HARD ll TASK To iu 1 protect limit tho city with h his hili little gar gir Tillon antI the tIme prisons destroyed the governor hall hail to resort to 10 extraordinary measures rn The soldiers were r ordered to 10 moke free froe use liSt of oC their weapons and for petty pelt offenses the th cudgel or knout was resorted to tn thieves getting first 25 Inches later 50 SO and finally a n hun bun dred Ired This sutured hut but the criminals living at nt to 10 j places In Iii the Iho lit Interior the Ihl governor f forced to divide his hlA 60 O men send Hend lug ing In an nn officer r and 10 15 Omen men to tn b five 11 m rosa mn n to where the th Japan I e e had hod left leU large larse stores of or t antI three m n to 10 The Ilu hr rem J nants stood guard tin iii and night but the convicts were here able to s st t torch to the th chancellery of oC the governor the time club time the residence of ot the chief Jailer and many man other oilIer buildings During Durin the raping storms four dir steam er 1111 anti a ii schooner Including n a ton loti vessel from from America the Herman J steamer with a crow crew of oC 67 61 men and anti tho time with 23 men amen which were macro endeavoring to bring sup snip plies to Sakhalin were wrecked on the Inhospitable winter Inter coasts of oC the island and oil all on hoard board wets were lost host In t Finally after 25 22 2 days ships with sev ss several PI eral Iral thousand arrived amid re cc r Mored d order Tho hl new nets nl troops Mere without quarters rl however c ColnA to tn th tita destruction of oC xii all the crown buildings and amid many man other houses house and amid suffered extremely from the thi Severn seven cold coil they could rould build barracks CONVICTS CO BEASTS The fht correspondents describe I tin the con convicts mOTe more like beasts ts than nun nin lint hut say they Iho in tear fear Oar of time the s the population being able to 10 steep p with doors lOaf and simil windows unlocked d thought though hundreds of oC convicts were r time the streets t roNA |
