Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1912 — RUSSIAN SEAMEN IN MUTINY [ARTICLE]

RUSSIAN SEAMEN IN MUTINY

One Military Transport Scuttled, Another Captured—St. Petersburg Rush Fleet to Scene. St. Petersburg, Aug. 23 The Russian Black SOa fleet left here under forced draught for Nicolaeff following the receipt of dispatches stating that seamen, in open mutiny, had scuttled the military transport Cagsul and had captured another transport which they threatened with the sapie fate. Tashkent, Asiatic Russia, Aug. 23 Fifteen Russian non-commissioned officers were sentenced to be hanged here on charges of mutiny after a trial at which 228 officers were accused. Seven were acquitted and 206 sent to jail for long terms.