IMPROVED RESISTANCE FROM RUSSIAN NAVY HOPED.
RECOVERY FROM FEVERS OF THE REVOLUTION. Times. (Received l:. p.m.) LONDON? Oct,. 16. Signs are showing of an improvement in the morale of the Russian Navy, and it may fight well in the Baltic. The navy is recovering more quickly than the ; rmy- Upon the outbreak of the present revolution a mutiny war, started among the crews of the smaller warships at Helsingfon, vengeance being invoked for punishments awarded in 1905. The fleet was frozen in the ice, and the agitators had a free field. .Admirals Virer, Neplnin, and Nebolsin, and other officers were slaughtered liko cattle, burned at the stake, or dropped alive in holes in the ice. Indignities were brutally displayed towards the widows and orphans searching for the remains of their loved ones. The affair was the handiwork of Petrograd agitators, abetted by German spies. The subsequent recovery of the fleet permitted the repulse of the German fleet in Irben Channel.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16672, 17 October 1917, Page 7
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160IMPROVED RESISTANCE FROM RUSSIAN NAVY HOPED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16672, 17 October 1917, Page 7
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