23 JUNE 1906, Page 1
Friday's telegrams from Russia show that disaffection in the ...riny
is steadily spreading. For example, two garrison artillery battalions at Sevastopol mutinied, but were disarmed. At Krasnoyarsk, according to a Times telegram, the soldiers wounded their Colonel and killed a Captain, both of whom bad sabred men when drunk. At Sevastopol semi-mutinies appear to be of constant occurrence, and at Odessa not only the garrison, numbering some twenty-seven thousand men, but the sailors of the Black Sea Fleet, are said to be on the verge of an outbreak. Such a condition of things cannot last very much longer. They must soon either improve, or reach the point where bonds of discipline become entirely dissolved, and the Army becomes the most dangerous of mobs.
