THE RUSSIAN NAVY.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14539, 17 October 1917, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN NAVY.

IMPROVING MORALE,

RECENT MUTINY ON SMALL SHIPS

OFFICERS SLAUGHTERED LIKE

CATTLE,

';The Times.")

(Received Oct. 16, 11.45 p.m.)

Petrograd, Oct. 16

Ther are signs of improvement in the morale of the Russian Navy. The Bolshevik influence is losing ground, and they may fight well in the Baltic. The navy is recovering quicker than the army.

At the outbreak of the present revolution the Bolsheviks started a mutiny in the smaller warships at Helsingfors, invoking .vengeance for the punishments' awarded in 1905.

The fleet \* as frozen in the ice, and the agitators had a free field. Admirals Viren, Neplenin, and Nebokin. and other officers were slaughtered like cattle. They were burned at the stake or dropped alive through ' holes in the ice. Indignities and brutalities were visited upon their widows and orphans when searching for the remains of their loved ones. Petrograd agents abetted the German spies.

The subsequent recovery permitted the fleet to repulse the German fleet in Irbe Channel.