CABLE NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 93, 17 October 1906, Page 7

CABLE NEW S.

(BT EIiECTBIC TJSLBOBAFH. — COrXBIGHT. j ~~ « 1 , AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA. ; « ACTIVITY OF THE POLICE. EXPLOSIVES AND WEAPONS SEIZED. frBJSSS ASSOCIATION.! (Received October 17, 8.40 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 16th Oct. The Russian police in a few days seized two hundred and forty pounds of dynamite, a hundred and eighty-three revolvers, three thousand throe- hundred rifles, and four hundred thousand cartridges. THE NAVAL MUTINY AT KRONSTADT. BRUTAL SCENE! AT AN EXECUTION. ST. PETERSBURG, 16th Oct. Details of the execution on the 4th October of nineteen of tho men concerned in the naval mutiny at Kronstadt show that the proceedings were of a barbario and disgraceful character. Seventeen of the condemned men accepted the priests' ministrations, and two refused. While an officer wao reading the sentences aloud, he was stopped through the prisoners singing a revolutionary funeral hymn. The prisonew were tied to a rope stretched between two posts. A request not to have sacks placed over their heads was refused. The firing party was drawn from the light infantry. Like the mutineers, the executioners were shivering with oold, and mtiddled the operations. When they fired a volley only three men were killed outright. The weight of the falling bodies of the killed and wounded dragged down the others into a confused mass of humanity, from which arose cursings at the executioners for their clumsiness. The firing then degenerated into butchery. The corpses were crammed into sacks and dropped into the sea.