Emery County Progress | 1905-07-15 | Page 2 | Fired upon the Officers

FIRED UPON THE OFFICERS private account of the tragedy at L ban bau russ a london the morning post from private sources gives an account ot of the recent outbreak at libau accord ing to which the first naval mut ii led to twenty three men being con damned to death the attempt to carry out the sentences of death pro yoked still more serious s gns agns of mil mu tiny whereupon the port commander ordered executions to be stopped and applied to st petersburg for instruct t ons the government replied that all mutineers must be shot and a shooting party was formed but when the order to fire was given the firing squad turned and fired on the officers instead of on the condemned muti and a dozen officers fell dead other troops including cossacks the says were summoned and a seno serio is conflict developed in which be tween twenty ind and thirty cossacks were killed before the mutiny was quelled