THE RUSSIAN NAVY.
WILL IT REGAINTT& EFFICIENCY. A TERRIBLE STORY OF THE RED REVOLUTION. PETROGRAD, Oct. 16. There are signs of an improvement in the morale of tho Russian Navy, Tho Bolshevik influence is losing ground, and the men may fight well in the Haiti*. The navy is recovering quicker than the army. At the outbreak of the present revolution the Bolsheviks started a mutiny on tho smaller warships at Helsingfors, invoking vengeance for the punishments awarded in 1905. As the fleet was frozen in the ice the agitators had a free field. Admirals Viren, Neplnin and Nebolsm, and other officers, were slaughtered like cattle, burned at the stake, and dropped, still alive, through holes in the ice. Brutal indignities were offered towards the widows and orphans who were searching for tho remains of their loved ones. The handiwork of these Petrograd agitators was abetted by German spies. Ihe subsequent recovery permitted the repulse of the German fleet in the Irbcn Channel, ihc Times.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10109, 17 October 1917, Page 5
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164THE RUSSIAN NAVY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10109, 17 October 1917, Page 5
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