RUSSIAN MUTINEERS SHOT.
Telegraph Press Association Copyright St. Petersburg, September 19. Details of the execution of four of the sailors of the Prout (one of the warships that mutinied) in a square in Fort Constantine, Sebastopol, are to hand. Several hundred sailors from the ships that mutinied, guarded by infantry, were lined up on three sides of the square and troops were ordered to shoot if they made the slightest movement. The firing party was selected from fellow mutineers. The four died with great fortitude.
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Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 49, 20 September 1905, Page 3
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85RUSSIAN MUTINEERS SHOT. Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 49, 20 September 1905, Page 3
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