Show FIRED THE OFFICERS i private account of the tragedy at libau russia London The morning post from private sources gives an account of the recent outbreak at libau accord ing to which the first naval mutiny led to twenty three men being con damned to death the attempt to carry out the sentences of death pro yoked still more serious signs of mu tiny whereupon the port commander ordered executions to be stopped and applied to st petersburg for instruct eions 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 serious conflict developed in which be tween twenty and thirty cossacks were killed before the mutiny was quelled |