The mob hunts down the officers, and then

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Now desperate, Glarovaky leaped down from the copstun and wrenched a rifle from the nearest mon.

"50 you're in on this,' too, are you?" he culled out to the rest of the bluejackets furiously. "You obey orders" or..."

· At that monent the first shot rany out the first bullet sang overhead.

No mutiny in history cari Gave flared up so quickly Into flames as searing aid uncontrol- Inble as that which now' seized the battleship Potemkin,

First shot

Gregor!.

Abic Seaman Vakulinebult was the first to return from the armoury, where the rifle stood pyramid-slacked, to the aft end of the gundeck,

face

It had been a frenzied involving only the most deler- mined of the men, while many inore hazered uncertainly or rai and shouted without purpose.

It was Vaitulmchuk who fired that first shot,

Giltrovsky ran to meet him, shooting with hasty alm and without effect twice across the and closed with quarterdeck. the mutineer near a gun turret. Vakulinchuk tried to bring his rife to bear on the officer, but Gullarovsky got his shot in first. This tune his aim wag good. Vakullnchuk crumpled up half

in and half out of the turret.

At that moment a group of ormed seanien urrived at the scene of this first shooting. A their bead Matushenko,

WHE Afanasy

He saw the wounded mna lying at Gilbrovsky's feet. He saw Gillarovsky swing his rifle round, lake alm

him, and

fire twice, missing both times; and then heard him calling out, "Drop your rifle-de you hear? Drop your Miße."

A MAN WITH A GRUDGE

SHOOTS THE CAPTAIN

The Czar and Czarina....the events aboard the Potemkin foreshadowed the end of their world.

Many more now had rifles armoury and pistols from the and were keen to find targets at which to fire. There had been 18 officers besides the captain in the ship.

"Come on, commades, hunt them down," a volce was urging them from the, top of the big ship's not fun turret. "The

the al once ours yet." And blooded pack was oft in full cry. spreading out along the main deck, down gangways to the wardroom and officers' quarters.

+

The hunt.

Someone caught a glimpse of Junior Lieutenant Vakhtin emerging from his cabin, and at cnice opened fire. More shots followed, and there was renew- ed shouting as a group of men pursued him up on to the main deck, then to the upper deck, shot where he was twice hit by bul- rong out and the Potemkin's les before he reached the rails first officer fell dead to the deck.. and throw Himself overboard.

"You'll have to kill me first" Matushenko replied. "Get off the sp, it belongs to us now." Again Gillarovsky raised his rifle, but Matusheriko wis 100 quick for him.

single

Too late

not

The remainder of the armed men, some 50 in all, had paused in their charge on to the quarterdeck.

hud

capstan,

Valculinchuk's

Other ofllvers followed him into the sea, and for some miaules there occurred the extraordinary spectacle hatless officers of the Imperial Navy emerging' at intervals like rabblie front d ferret- ridden

on to tho Warrest, Potemkin's, main and upper decks, and racing for the the.

Ercaler wafely of the water below. un- horror

I

#1

Midshipman Liventzov, who

remained beside

confused and decided, watched in

Each was of

followed by exchange

of greater or shots with Gillarovsky and the shouting mob, Arrival of the mob of armed lesser number, firing wildly at men led by Matushenko.

the target when he could be scer, and often when he could not.

to

Liventrov, too, attempted snatch at a rifle from one of the members of the fring squad to support his senior officer. But he was too late.

There was no longer any Indecision

among the

Taunts

Several armed men took

up

magazine busy fusing the ship's complement of mines.

At once the tide of fear and self-preservation carried some towards the ship's boats, and the bolder scrambling down the gang ladders towards the bowels of the ship.

Bat Lito crisis

passed Sotto rapidly.

of thoge descending to the magazino met others dragging up Junfor Lieutenant. AIDIDOS, the officer who had stood by Captain Gollkof, during his Ineffectual barangue,

"We found him trying to fuse the mines," a breathless enllor explained. "He was going to blow the lot of us sity high. We got him just in time."

"Let's have him over the side like the rest of them."

Matuchenko met the party, as they emerged on to the upper re- deck and ordered them to atrain their violence. “So there was only one of you, was there?" he demanded, "Who sent you to the magazine?".

Pleading

"The captain," Alexvov told him. “He told me It. wsta better to sacridoe the ship than let you get control. But

I'd like to join you.

Don't kIB me--I was always on, your side, you know."

Alexeev had been the least unpopular of the officers, apply ing discipline Keniently and occasionally showing almost comradely qualities.

"

"All right, strip off his epauletics and let him go," Matushenko ordered, "We'll set about him later. The man we want now is the caplain. The first thing you can do is to tzil us where he is," he told the

"You'll find him in his cabin that's where I last saw him." Alexeev answered surprisingly.

blue- positions at strategic points on Jackets and he was thrown the upper deck, Bring on the aside, to be shot down by a officers in the brief moment of

to the rails and Houtenant Volley of ballets within their fight seconds of Giarovsky's death. overboard, while others hung about closer to the side of the Next to die was the Gunnery ship and look more leisurely Officer, Lieutenant Neodpokoev, shots as they swam away, who, rashly came up on te deck making for the Potemkin's from the wardroom, where news torpedo bout which cat yet had of the mutiny had arrived only no firm knowledge of what was. with the sound of the Brat gun happening in the battleship. shola,

Matushenko was personally Matushenko was the first to directing events. "We haven't spot him and at once raised his found the captain yet," he told rife and fred. The shot Tell the men nearest him. low, ricocheting off the deck,

"Where's the captain" an-

and Neoupokoey leaped into the other voice shouted out. "We air in spontaneous reaction.

want the captain-he's the man Try that again," voice we want. We want the cap- called out. Severat men were tain..." laughing uncontrollably and as

A

Neoupokoev turned to run for They had also forgotten Chief cover, Matushenko fired again, Surgeon Smirnov in the excite. then twice more, deliberately ment.. aiming at the lieutenant's fect responsible this time, so that he was forced might to leap high off the deck in fear,

Golikov's cabin had been one

of the first to be searched; later It was discovered that he and Alexcev had fled first to the unoccupied admiral's cabin and had only later retreated to the captain's cabin.

The last killing, was a de- sultory,, almost weary affair; lacking alt the impulsive angor1 and abandon of the earlier hunt through the ship,

in the eyes of the men it was the Giliarovsky who had been Potemkin's tyrant. Gollkov, a The man Indirectly tolerant, even lax, commander, for the uprising was little more than a figure- have remained un head seldom been by the mené. molested 12 he had not attempted suicide in his cabin.

The exuberant and purpose- Matushenko took more careful

opening minutes of the muiny alm and shot the officer dead.

had by then diet, and "Over the side with him," he sound of the revolver shot drew ordered. It

Then, as if tiring of the sport, Jess Aring that had marked the

Was

organize the mutiny, to drive bolted cabin door,

the

time to a number of the men

10

the

Detalls of the sequence of

out from cover the other officers

Revenge

It could not have been easy

to induce the urge to murder

ke man who eventually

emerged on to deck before jostling group of men.

He was without hat or shoes

or trousers, dressed only in his

and lake formal control of the events that followed remain ul- shirt and underclothes evidently Battleship.

Overboard

clear. All that is known la that in preparations for the own that Chief Surgeon Smirnov, suffer-

ing from knife as well as gun would follow the

shot wounda. WAS nex) seen trobe dragged

quarterdeck by

To the great mass of previous sailors.

ly uncommitted sailors their

future course of action was now clear.

Violence had come suddenly,

rant.

destruction of his ship.

planned

Cros the Divested of badges of rank

a group of and all dignity, and courage, he

was a pathetic night.

Panic

With o sallor“, holding “him

cup....

roughly by sach arm, the bair was hauled before Matu- shenko". "I know. I'm really to

Matulenko did not shower:

bewilderkigly, and dangerously. They were still taunting him blame for all this" Golikov told from two skies, but there could with abuse, and telling him to him: “It's all my fault. But I no longer be any doubt which get his teath into the high meat, hope you'll forgive me and show vide would ultimately triumph.... he had trieil to make them eat, sino mercy. There has been

Mas he floated away, thrashing enough killing" Like boys responding to the call of a playground bully, they about feebly, and at last drifted. struggled to get at the sprawled out of sight astern on the cur

for a moment, na if considering | bodies to hurt them ovIT the

“e the validity of his slatenient; | ralla, and chested derisively as The Polemicin muling had al-. Pothaps the captain, was right;|| they splashed into this FCB, most spent la frek fury, when there sorred Uttle point in 'nute. balow,*

Sony words which prend panic went ting to death this wretched- www round the ship looking creature: po sampled, "Werk blowingupl/. came "Tuasonally I have nothing from the book Tha Potemkin, the ory, elaborated, seconds later agawins, you," Martianhenkeenid Mutinya, Le We published by by the news, that in party plat "But it dependa ori Lile, KEISTIGWA down in the,main, new!!) And he turned away 'DE

K ID absolve himself from shamefared. Upping of the body, responsibility.

all; over the side,·· That 'was' Among most of the men and no one bothered even lo gathered in untidy, uncertain watch the half-dressed borpse groups on the quarterdeck, the slipping away on the current. pascion hud now ebbld.

First of the escaping, wound-

But among the mʊb was an ed offers to be hauled aboard Ordinary Souman named Strov, the torpedo boat was Junior recently. demoted for some Lieutenant, Valchtin: His first misdemeanour, and it was his words confirmed what #1 pelty grudge that · · decided aboard the boat could; now seo, Golikov'a-fabe.

NACING ON TASTASIS

The new rulers of This is one of the few contemporary pictures of the

the Potemkin

Potemkin mutineers. Afanasy Matushanku, the fanatic who was the driving force behind the rebellion, is the man in the white shirt.

An officer more confident of "He said he'd· string us 13

the loyalty of his crew and To the yardarm, didn't he?" more determined. and decisivo Sirov suddenly called out. Than Lieutenant Klodt, the "He was going to kill us, so boat's captain, might at inlo les finlih him ́off,”

point have torpedoed the battle- He pushed his way roughly ship at point-blank range before had time to forvard, several of his crpuies the mutineers

and "Shall we line them up

That evening a battleship an when the fast shot rang out.

the following behind, and took the organise themselves.

others?" chored four miles out in the and shoot them like captain: from his unresisting

Instead he waited the arrival Two more shots followed;

tho

close to Bay of Odesso, the great city Klodi put one of Lieutenant Baron guard.

of the last survivors, and then ordered the anchor up and full over the torpedo boat's wheel Matushenke demanded. All the and port on the Black Sen. She and took her in a Ught half armed matineers were standing was too far out for it to be ob steam ahend.

pirele

brok alongside the about close to the rails, and served from the shore that from after the ·lorpedo boat's her masthead flew not the Cross Potemkin:

allempted escape' there were of St Andrete but the Red Flag.

NEXT WEEK:

Flight

The little bont gathered way and her commander

10

sailors

No one raised any objection, -rapidly,

Matushenko stationed him some still in a threatening mood. and there seemed to be a total awung her round through 180

self at the head of the gang ** Indifference to his tale.

degrees escape past the

there's been enough aboard," he "No. ladder. "Come the Potemkin's stem towards

called down to Lieutenant bloodshed," Matushenko ordered,

could hear. open sen,

"Lei Klodt, "and bring the officers so that all with you. Your ship belongs. them alone now. Just strip off to the people; the kamo as their badges of rank and lock this: brilleship."/

them all up below."

A few followed the shoving escort party to the ship's rails:

They had passed the stern of but it was a quiet, cold, passion- less king: a single shot from the battleship and were at a Sirov's revolver, a quick almost range of just over half a mile ·

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