Show city of odessa bombarded by the kniaz aframe with rebellion black sea squadron sighted i i si dr 0 o as battleship surrenders washington june 30 mr heenan the american consul at odessa in a cablegram to the state department dated today at p mi saye firing soon ceased fleet arrived 12 today kniaz surrendered at once without firing a shot st petersburg june 30 p m not since the insurrection in december 1825 when a portion the guard regiments joined in attempts to set up a republic in russia has an attack been made on tho autocracy and romanoff regime either the open revolt will be stamped out or the flames will have spread possibly beyond the hope of control at the admiralty it is said that rear admiral brugers Kru gers squadron Is expected to arrive at odessa during the day no explanation is offered tor the delay of the squadrons sailing from sevastopol sebastopol Seba it is admitted although great reticence is manifested that at 9 last night the kniaz was firing upon the city the admiralty thinks the mutinous crew were probably drunk the officials consider it possible that the crew were supporting the st riken and revolutionists ashore against the troops throughout the day the soldiers and police had evidently refrained from attempting to interfere with the strikers under threats of tho mutineers muti of the battleships to use their guns against them although it Is possible acquiescence is due to tear the authorities think they are unreliable and a regiment of dragoons and a brigade of artillery have been sent to odessa from cherson Kh erson these troops should nave arrived at odessa this morning with these rein tor cements and the city under martial law it is believed the military government will be strong enough to attempt to suppress the rioters by lorce The plan is believed to be for the troops to crush the disorders in the city while brugers Kru gers squadron holds the entrance of the harbor it is apparently patently ly questionable whether kruger will engage the kniaz Po it she refuses to surrender as firing upon the vessel might be too dangerous a test for the sailors on board bis ships besides it would involve necessarily the destruction of the battleship tle ship costing several millions and damage to the city admiral loffa plan of starving out the mutinous crew is that likely to he followed at the mutinous sailors to the number of about were finally corralled by troops and artillery in a wood near the port and by this morning a thousand of them had already surrendered their comrades possibly will be starved out whether there was any great loss of alto is as yet unknown great precautions are being taken to prevent the possible spreading of the mutiny to the sailors of st petersburg and cronstedt Cron stadt the newspapers are not allowed to print a word of the official dispatches regarding the revolt of the sailors but several of them in a roundabout round about fashion have succeeded in hinting at startling developments the eremya with seeming innocence announced that the aled gazette of the prefecture of odessa has requested the inhabitants of that city to keep off the so as to avoid accidents when me troops are firing other papers remark upon the masking of troops in south russia considerable nervousness prevails among the upper classes at st P kersburg ers burg many of those who has not already left town tor the sun haer are hastily preparing to go abroad ambassador meyers family leaves st petersburg by the express tomorrow sailing jicy ath for the united states where they will spend the summer their tian bow ever was arranged long ago and is not connected with the present developments M besobrazoff president of the balu yalu timber company has suddenly arrived in st petersburg SAILORS surrounded elbau june 30 about mutinous sailors are surrounded in a small wood near the port by infantry and reinforced by machine guns one thousand of the mutineers muti already have surrendered and given up their arms the mutiny started wednesday night when the sailors of the first as the national units are known in russia revolted because the food was bad they were coined immediately by the sixth thirteenth and fifteenth blue jack cag in all the guard at first tried to oppose them killing one and wounding seven but got the upper hand they seized the guard houses broke open stores securing arms and ammunition pandemonium followed throughout the night tho mutineers muti wrecked the barracks attacked the quarters of the officers and alred volleys at random until morning the city was terrorized iben troops and artillery arrived wednesday morning all entrances to the city are closed and gradually the sailors were anven into the wood which they have since much firing mingled with the hum mang of machine guns has been heard but every one is forced by the police to keep off the streets and away the port nothing Is definitely known except hat 1000 mutineers muti have surrendered the agents have sea the opportunity to distribute pro clama alons from house to house PEARS ARE entertained paris june 30 aso p m official r NEWS IN washington washington june 30 A als patch received at the state department part ment over night from consul henan at odessa says in substance six officers of the killed eight disabled remainder prisoners fleet has not arrived at odessa harbor largely destroyed by fire fifty rioters wiled and many russian steamers burned another dispatch from the same source timed odessa p m says boat firing on town no fleet A cablegram has been received from ambassador meyer at st petersburg which says information from odessa that rioters have been killed the harbor largely destroyed by alre battleship firing on the town fleet not arrived S advises advices from odessa say that three warships of the black sea blest have arrived for the purpose of taking measures against the mutinous crews of the battleship kniaz no action however has yet been taken nor has the commander of the squadron indicated his intentions some fear that the crews of the advancing warships may sympathize with the mutineers muti and join issues with them comparative calm has been restored within the city but disorder continues in the harbor section where considerable parts of the wharves and docks have been burnau precise information is not given in the official advises advices but they are understood der stood to further confirm the press reports that the dead and wounded number several hundred SHIPS DESTROYED st petersburg june 30 11 a m A dispatch filed at odessa last evening at and received here this morning says the battleship kniaz was then opening are upon the shore six officers of the battleship were murdered by the eight have been liberated and the remainder are prisoners on board five hundred rioters have been killed A telegram sent from odessa at 1009 this morning to a ship owner says the bombardment which commenced yesterday evening was not serious A renewal was threaten ed this morning another telegram sent at 1134 a m says the british ships are thus far safe anarchists AIDING new york june 30 news of the riots and pillage in odessa has stirred the anarchists who hold forth on the east side as they have not been stirred before in years at a mass meeting which packed clinton hall funds were friely subscribed for russian revolutionists and the speakers predicted that the present uprising marks the wano 0 the present governmental ern mental system in that country herr john most was the principal speaker he said the news from russia was the roost glorious that the revolutionists of the world had ever heard and that fhe movement would go on until russia was trampled to dust BLOCKADES THE PORT london june 30 A dispatch to the evening standard from odessa says since midnight the russian battleship kniaz has established a blockade of the port in regard to all steamers flying tha russian flag not one Is allowed to enter or depart six of the steamers are in the roads under the battleships guns the port Is in the extraordinary tra ordinary position of being blockaded on the seaside by a mutinous warship and the landside is impassable owing to a military cordon which seals up every approach to tho hap bor STEAMERS BURNED london june SO A dispatch from odessa to lloyds dated today says the city is quiet three steamers of the russian transport company have been burned end the thoroughfares leading to the ports are closed MURDERED IN vienna june 30 A dispatch received at bucharest from kishineff says general Czerno tucki chief of the nes gendarmerie gendar merie has been found murdered in his residence at kishineff A general has broken out at kishineff the town is occupied by cossacks nine ships destroyed odessa june 30 up to the present time nine ships have been burned government BUYS VESSELS will be used in connection with panama railroad washington june 30 chairman announces that the isthmian canal commission purchased from the ward line a view to their lease by the commission to the panama aril road the american steamers mexico and havana at each less than the original cost of the vessels these vessels are of tons each and capable of sustaining a speed of 16 knots they are provided with hatches and aldo ports enabling the shipment of heavy cargo these vessels will be immediately turned over tor the use of the panama REBELLION IN st petersburg june 30 P m A sensational report Is current that imperial sailors together with the workmen at the yards and docks of the naval port of cronstedt Cron stadt have suddenly refused to work and that practically a state of mutiny exists there p m the mutiny of sailors at cronstedt Cron stadt is confirmed one officer was killed the situation was reflected by an all around slump fin the bourse today imperial fours were sustained by the government but nevertheless they fell almost a point railroad and steamship line enabling the company to dispense with two vessels now chartered at a high price the speed 0 these vessels wall save tour days on each round trip giving five round trips a year more than ady foreign vessels available |