A REVOLT AT SEVASTOPOL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11725, 28 November 1905, Page 5

A REVOLT AT SEVASTOPOL.

10,000 Mutineers.

Received November 27, 11.32 p.m.

ST PETERSBURG. November 27.

A political revolt at Sevastopol, organised by a Social Democratic organisation comprising sailors,, soldiers aud workmen, commenced on. Friday, when the sailors, defying Pisarevski's orders, insisted on holding a meeting. Pisarovski ordered the troops to fire. A bullet pierced the shoulder and killed a captain of the Brest regiment. Then tho workmen and part of tho garrison, including the Brest regiment and some fortress artillery, fraternised. The mutineers, who were 10,000 strong, paraded Sevastopol in bands with red fiag3. They placed sentinels at tho grog shops to prevent drunkenness. No attempt at pillage was made, th© inhabitants fleeing 1 . Tho Bialystok regiment, while it did not join the mutineers, refused to fire upon them.