Warships Surround Mutineer

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1369, 4 July 1905, Page 2

Warships Surround Mutineer

She Passes Tlirogi tlia Riiiy

Do Not Mlest Her

Press Association.—Copyrigbt. • (Received This Day, 8.30) ' St Petersburg, July, .-i Viob-A DMiRAL Kruger, oomman-. ding, the; battleships '• Roitlav :and; Sniope, and Vice-Admiral Vyshorevebky, commanding the battleships Georgi Pobiedonoslsefl, Triaviatellia, and Dvenadaspostotow, and torpedo cruiser Kazarsky, with several torpe-. doors, proceeded from Sebasiopol to Odessa, and the flagship signalled, i ordering IheKniaz+Potemkiu to join the fleet immediately. The Kniaz-Potemkin replied by asking the admiral to come aboard. Receiving no answer, the KniazPotemkin cleared for action' and steamed at full .speed along the whole lino of fleet, passing so close that the features of her commander, who was wearing civilian dress, were clearly distinguishable. Many others, dressed in mufti, were seen on the Kniaz Potemkin,

Vice-Admiral lunger (hen Big' nailed (lie fleet lo proceed lo Seta topol, and Ihe Kuiaz-Potemkin signalled "Wo shall remain here," Gnzevitch, commander of the Georgi PobiedonostsefT, signalled that hia machinery was disabled, and Kruger repeated the order to make fo Sebastopol The Pobiodonostsefl'replied, "We shall remain here," and steamed alongside the Kniass.Potemkin, and then signalled" Wo wish lo land our officers," The rest of the fleet then hoadod for Sebastopol,