MORE ABOUT THE KNIAZ POTEMKIN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12548, 11 July 1905, Page 5

MORE ABOUT THE KNIAZ POTEMKIN.

KUIGER TAKES POSSESSION

Received July 10, 10.27 p.m

ST. PETERSBURG, July 10

The torpedoer No. 267 has returned tj Russia, those aboard declaring that they did not mutiny, but were compelled to follow the Kniaz Potemkin.

Matuschenko, the ringleader of the mutiny, instead of surrendering, wished to blow up the Kniaz Potemkin. Bloodstains are everywhere about the vessel. The cabins were pillaged. Seven officers were kept aboard as prisoners in a pitiable condition, as a result of their illtreatment. It is declared that Matuschenko himself killed ten officers. The mutineers, with revolvers, compelled two engineers and an officer to navigate the ship. The ammunition aboard would have sufficed for the Kniaz Potemkin to hold her own in a great engagement.

The Consuls at Odessa are greatly relieved. Kuiger, with two battleships, four torpedoers, and a destroyer, have ai rived at Kustenji. They exchanged salutes with the Roumanian cruiser Elisabeta, and claimed possession of the Kriiaz Poterakin. The commander replied that King Charles' had ordered bei* transfer to Russia, which was effected an hour later, after a Russian priest had held a service for the purification of murder and rebellion.