UNREST IN RUSSIA
LONDON, December 6. Serious bread riots have occurred in
Several parts of Russia. The soldiers helped to sack the shops. Numbers of the rioters were killed and wounded.
The Times' Russian correspondent states that 800 sailors, marines, and firemen participated in the Sebastopol mutiny. It arose, because' some of the crew of the battleship Georgi Pobiedonostzeff were not allowed to go ashore. They seized the boats of the lest of the squadron. The Admiral's signals to suppress the insubordination were disregarded.
The garrison troops at first refused to shoot the sailors in the streets, even though the officers had threatened them with severe punishment. Some of the mutineers used firearms.
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Otago Witness, Volume 14, Issue 2648, 14 December 1904, Page 25
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