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Show ! 1 RUSSIA IN THROES OF REVOLUTION Sailors on Board Battleship Mutiny and Turn the Guns Upon the City of Odessa. OFFICERS OF VESSEL MURDERED 8trlkers Ji Hands With .Mutinous Sailors and the Long-Looked for Struggle Has Evidently Begun. Odessa. The red flag of revolution is hoisted at tho ninsthoad of the Knlas Pbtcmklhc, Russia's most powerful pow-erful battieshlp in tho Black Sea, which now HesMn tho harbor In tho hands of mutineers. Tho captain and most of tho officers woro murdered and thrown overboard In tho open sea and tho ship Is com-plotoly com-plotoly in. the possession of tho crow1 nnd a fow officers who havo thrown in tholr lot with the mutineers. Tho gun8 0f tho Knlnz Potemklno aro trained on tho city, and in tho streets masses of striking workmen who fled before tho volleys of tho troops aro now Inflamed by tho spectacle spec-tacle of open revolt on board an Imperial Im-perial warship and aro making a bold front agalnBt the military. Roports of tho mutiny, which occurred oc-curred whllo tho battleship was at sea, nro difficult to obtain, as tho xnutlnoeors rofuso to allow communication communi-cation with the shore, hut It is ascertained ascer-tained that It arose from tho shooting of a Bailor who was presenting on bo-half bo-half of tho crow a complaint against bad. food. According to ono version, this sailor, whose namo was Omllt-chuk, Omllt-chuk, objected to the quality of tho "borchtch" or soup, and was Immediately Imme-diately shot down by a mess officer. Tho crow thon roso and seized tho ship and tho officers, eight of whom wcro Bpared on condition that they would Join tho mutineers. Tho others were killed and their bodies thrown overboard. London. Tho Odossa corespondent of tho Dally Telegraph, In a dispatch filed at 11:30 o'clock Thursday night, says that tho Kniaz Potemklno has begun firing on tho town. . Odessa. Tho crew of a government transport which arrived hero Thursday Thurs-day from Nlckolleffa mutinied, seized their officers and Joined tho crew of tho battleship Knlnz Potemklno, to whom they turned over tho captain and other officers of tho transport. It Is understood that foreign consuls con-suls havo applied to their respectlvo governments to send warships to Odessa. Llbau, Government of Courland, Russia. Tho Russian snllors hero' rdutlnled Thursday night, attacked tho government stores, seized tho' arms and fired Into tho officers' quarters. quar-ters. Infantry, artillery and Cossacks woro brought to tho sceno of tho fighting, fight-ing, but tho result is not known. In-tenso In-tenso excitement prevails hero. Odessa. Hundreds of rioters were shot and mnny killed by troops during dur-ing Thursday night. Martial law ha3 been proclaimed. Practically tho entlro harbor was gutted by lire Thursday night. All tho warehouses, with largo quantities of merchandise, ns well ns four or flvo Russian stenmers, woro burned. Probably three hundred rioters woro killed. Sevcrnl Cossacks woro also slain. Tho losses aro estimated at many millions of roubles. Tho remnants of tho whnrves and warehouses set on flro nro still burning, and tho city Is enveloped In n thick cloud of smoke. The shops aro closed and business and' traffic Is suspended. Tho streets' aro occupied by troops. Many real-! dents arc leaving Odessa. |