Another Account

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

Another Account

(Receivod Thia Day, 8.85) London, July 3 Yiee.Admiral Kruger'a fleet surrounded tho Kniuz-Potomkin, which passed through tho iron ring unmolested, presumably owing to general disaffection in the fleet. St Petersburg, July 3 An official telegram received here implies that the battleship Pobiedonostseff was loft to guard the surrendered Kniaz-Potemkin. It is also alleged officially that tho crow revolted while under the influence of liquor. London, July 3 Renter's Odessa correspondent telegraphs that the Podiebonostseff on Sunday sent 40 hostages ashore and asked the tor's forgiveness for mutinying, and pleaded that they had not damaged the ship. The Governor has proclaimed that all danger of a catastrophe has passed, and ordered all the strikers to resume. The manufacturers aic sanguine that the men will resume immediately, Some accounts slate that the Kuiaz-Polemkin's crew dram: all the champagne and vodka aboard, On Saturday the mutinous ships sent a deputation threatening the Governor that they would bombard the town unless the city capitulated within -18 hours, The garrison has been further strengthened.