THE PLOT TO SEIZE THE CZAR

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3627, 13 September 1912, Page 5

THE PLOT TO SEIZE THE CZAR

RUSSIAN NAVAL REVOLT,

FOUR HUNDRED SEAMEN ARRESTED.

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHTJ (Received Sept. 12, 2.40 p.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 11. Four hundred seamen have been arrested at Sevastopool, including Captain Shut-in, who attempted suicide.. The, disaffection was chiefly on the battleships Zlatoust and Kagul and on the cruiser Mtrurie.

[The truth regarding the conspiracy recently discovered on the Russian battleship Ivan Zlatoust, of the Black Sea fleet, as a result of which sixteen seamen were arrested, is now beginning to leak out. Had the plot matured there would have been an amazingly daring seizure of the Imperial yacht Standart, on board of which at the time the Czar was homeward bound from Malta. The intention of those implicated in the conspiracy was to compel the Czar to abdicate or U> abrogate his autocratic powers and proclaim a limited monarchy and a really constitutional regime. The seizure of the Standart was to have been.the signal to the crews of the Baltic fleet to murder their officers and to attack Kronstadt and St. Petersburg. An urgent order has been issued forbidding naval officers, on pain of degradation and dismissal, to discuss with outsiders the present political unrest, and there is also a rigid censorship of all press references to the late revolt.]