Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1906 — BLOODY MUTINY Of RUSS TROOPS [ARTICLE]

BLOODY MUTINY Of RUSS TROOPS

Fierce Fighting Is Going on at Sveaborg, in Russian Finland. j • OVER 600 KILLED AND WOUNDED \ Artillerymen Join the Mutineers and Turn Guns on the Infantry. Helsingfors, Aug. 2, 12:10 a. m.—A rumor of the surrender of the entire mutinous force at Sveaborg 'was brought over to Helsingfors by the postmaster at Sveaborg. It Is impossible to confirm this rumor here. The mutineers have fatted in their efforts to secure provisions. Loudon, Aug. I.—A dispatch to a news agency from Helsingfors, FluLand. says that a portion of the garrison of Sveaborg, Finland, mutinied during the night and that a long and sanguinary struggle took place between the mutineers and the loyal troops, in which the former are said to have been victorious. The mutineers it is added, are now in possession of the fortress. Many were killed or wounded during the, fighting. A later dispatch from Helsingfors, Finland, says that fierce fighting continues at Sveaborg. Up to midday over 000 men have been killed or wounded. Warships are now- bombarding the fortress. The inhabitants of Helsingfors are in a state of panic. Plot Sprung'Prematurely. Helsingfors. Aug. t. A gigantic military conspiracy, aiming at the simultaneous capture of Russia’s three great sea fortresses —Cronstadt, Sebastopol and Sveaborg—arranged by the revolutionary military league, was prematurely sprung here Monday night by an attempt to arrest members of a company of sappers who bad mutinied on account of the death of one of their comrades, alleged to have been due to ill treatment. The entire garrison of the fortress at Sveaborg flamed out instantly in revolt. All the artillerymen and sappers garrisoning the place were involved. Only four companies of infantrymen remained loyal. The mutineers seized forty machine guns and practically all the quick-fir-ers and light artillery in the fortress, but even with this aid they were unable to hold the main fort against the loyal infantry. The fighting continued all night long. The heaviest firing was heard from 10 o'clock in the evening until 1 in the morning. Artillerymen Join Mutineers Stockholm. Sweden, Aug. I.—A dispatch received here from Helsingfors says that the artillerymen joined the Sveaborg mutineers, but that the Infantry remained loyal. The artillery trained guns on the loyal troops. 500 of whom were killed or wounded. An outbreak also occurred at Skatudden. The officers there were made prisoners and the soldiers elected leaders. One officer was killed. The Russian torpedo destroyer Finn is bombarding the barracks and the mutineers. Sveaborg is a strongly fortified town of Russian Finland, situated on Seven Islands, in the Gulf of Finland, immediately southeast of Helsingfors. The islands, which are connected by pontoons. form the site of a fortress which defends the harbor of Helsingfors and consists of numerous military works and batteries and a military arsenal. Sveaborg also has an excellent harbor. Report of Surrender Is Confirmed. Helsingfors. Aug. 2, 12:50 a. m.—The latest news from the fortress tends to confirm the previous report that the mutineers have surrendered. The mutineers undoubtedly had the upper hand until the battleships Slava and Czarevitch arrived on the scene and commenced to bombard them with such effect that the central magazine was blown up and the biggest guns in the hands of the revolutionists were rendered practically useless. Commander Toget and' 2.000 loyal Infantrymen then surrounded the barracks. They were under continual Are from the revolutionists, to which they could not reply. • Member Parliament Murdered. St. Petersburg, Aug. 2.—The report of the murder of M. Herzeusteln, the former member of the outlawed parliament. in which be was a prominent lender of the constitutional democrats, is confirmed. It turns out that he was assassinated at his country house near Terioki, Finland, by men in the pay of the Black Hundred organization. M. Herzenstein was wafting along the seashore with his wife and daughter when several shots were fired at him from an unoccupied building. M. Herzenstein was hit twice and fell dead. His daughter was wounded In the hand. The murderers escaped. M. Herzenstein was a leader In all of the zemstvo movements and furnished them ail of their financial data.