SEVASTOPOL MUTINEERS REGAIN ASCENDANCY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 288, 2 December 1905, Page 5

SEVASTOPOL MUTINEERS REGAIN ASCENDANCY.

TERRIBLE PANIC ON ST. PETERSBURG BOURSE. CZAR'S PERSONAL GUARDS SHOW DANGEROUS SIGNS. LONDON, December I. It is reported that early yesterday the routineers, after severe fighting, lad regained the ascendancy at Sevastopol, and had reoccupied the positions they lost in the battle on Wednesday. A terrible panic prevails on the Btmtc at Kt. Petersburg in consequence of the events at Sevastopol and the genei il disaffection in the army and navy. Russian 4 per cents, fell yesterday to 79. Financiers and business men genei illy are aghast at the seriousness of the situation. They tsay the Government's j-olicy is suicidal—that the Czar and his Ministers are playing into the hands of the revolutionaries. The postal officials throughout Rus ia have struck. The naval battalions at St. Peterslurg have been disarmed owing to being disaffected. , The artillerymen at the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul in St. Petersburg demanded yesterday the immediate release of the men belonging to the military school who were arrested on Wednesday. The commander of the fortress tas complied with the demand. Reuters St. Petersburg correspondent reports that - a number of men of the Yellow Cuirassiers, Hussars of the Guards and Imperial Family Tirailleurs, stationed at Tsarskoye Solo, where the Czar ia at present residing, have been wrested for presenting demands for ret ivins in the army and for protesting ■gainst being employed on police duty.