Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1905 — KNIAZ POTEMKINE HOLDS THE CENTER OF THE PLATFORM [ARTICLE]

KNIAZ POTEMKINE HOLDS THE CENTER OF THE PLATFORM

Also Seems to Hold the Com* mand of the Black Sea. DOES NOT ASK, BUT DEMANDS Orders a Town to Produce Sup* plies and Coal or Be Bombarded. Requires the City Dads to Insist on Reforms and the End of the War —Status of the Armistice. London, .fuly 3. —The situation In the Russian fleet is this: When Admiral Kruger reached Odessa last week his crews were so mutinous ttiat he dared not attack the Kniaz Potemkine, which thus was able to defy the admiral. Kruger sailed hack to Sebastopol, and owing to the disaffection of his crews has drawn his fires, ungeared his engines and sent the crews of the whole fleet ashore. The disaffection extends to tlie officers, and is the work oUlhe social revolutionists. Odessa, July 6. —Sixty-seven of the mutineers from the Georgi Pobledonosetz, including the ringleaders, have been Imprisoned. It is expected that all of them will be shot. Theodosia, Crimea, July 0. Summoned by the Kniaz Potemkine, which entered the harbor here yesterday, representatives of the town council went on board the battleship and were received In the admiral’s cabin by the commission commanding her. The commission demanded the delivery of 500 tons of coal and provisions of various kinds within twenty-four hours, and threatened that In the event of non-compliance, after due warning to the Inhabitants, the town would be bombarded. The commission also proposed that the mayor should transmit to the population a proclamation demanding the termination of the war, a convocation of zemstvos, etc. Workmen Hack the Mutineers. Learning of these demands many inhabitants fled the town. The workmen insisted that the demands be granted. A special meeting of the municipality was called and the council consented to deliver the provisions, but refused to comply with the demand for coal for the reason that the town had none.