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AGENTS, HONGKONG, CHINA, & JAPAN,
THE VOYAGE OF THE "OREL." her reception in the Crown Colony was
by no means cordial. THRILLING TALE OF A RUSSIAN were rained upon her und "H.MS. A the botteries TRAINING-SHIP AND HER jongold, guns at the ready, can out to
BOLSHEVIST CREW,
baert her What sort of explanations"; wer offered between Lieut. Commander HOW SALVATION CAME IN HONGKONG. Affanasieff and the representative of Bri-
BINET Among the passengers travelling to y; but, after some little delay the Orel Naval Power, it is impossible to Yokohaling in beard the M.M.'s.s, d'aul was admitted to the harbour. Lrent are a party of nine Russian naval Here, to make a long story short, one officers en route from Saigon to Vladivoening towards the end of Januars, the stock (says the J. Daily News of Detohel was once again govered by the Bri- ber 8th). Their return to Russia irms tish gas, and the Captain in the pre- of the final episodes of A 1110 sened of a representative at the British remarkable by-play in the history of the Navy and the Russian Consul, read out Russian Revolution. Up to the present to the crew a very cart order that they no full account of it has appeared in the were all to go aboard B. M.S. City of press, and the story will certainly proveondon for shipment back to Vladivo interrating to all readers.
Mucky mark of disinclination to orders would render them liable to fired upon by the British. aboard the City of London. Nevertheless
It was a very rowed crew that stepped. such is the strange mentality of the Rus sian peasant, the next morning as that Vessel weighed anchor to take them to sea they assembled their brass band on the fter deck and plusel themselves unt of the harbour to a very creditabl, imitation of God Save the King.
During the first week of October, 1917, on the eve of the overthrow of the Kerensky Government, a Hota cf. about 230 midshipmen with some officers and instructors was despatched from the Naya! Corps at Petrograd by special train to
Vladivostock in order to under take a course of naval instruction during a cruise in the South China Seay. Front the time of the cutbreak of war these winter cruises from Vindivostock had a searly part of the curriculum of been a
Copping had already become.
hut in 1962 the anti-aristo- vioint in Petrograd that it was with no little ditheulty that these future officers were allowed to depart unmolested. The tone of the boys themselves was also difer ent fron what it had been in previous years, and later it was even found that nnng them were quite a number of spies in the service of the soldiers and sailors' councils.
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APPRENTICES TO LOWER DECK Thus closed the first chapter in the voyage of the Orel. She remained now in Hongkong with only officers and cadets. aboard, and with a dishonoured Kerensky letter of Asiatic Bank.
grgalit somewhere at the Busse For unexpected ft in uf instruction was car- one moith a most intensive bat ried out and the eats were drilled into being deck buns, firem, creamers, and what not. At the end of that period, Once clear of Petrograd the tram-load French Governments, and the pourvous through the help of the British and of young endets travelled neruss the Rus-interests of M. Lapieque, the Orel received sian and Siberian
AN OMINOUS OFTROOK.
it
bus minor eppes without any her first charter as a freighter betwmeny
and about three Hongkong, Haiphong and Saigon, weeks later
in Vladivostock. There they were abarked upon the
IN ENEMY HATS DUXE TRIS auxiliary cruiser Orl-which by the voyage as
At the beginning of March the first way is a slightly
trader was undertaken and Fire Ser sister ship of Simbirsk. While thealing cry Finet str. Simha kostolt one. The Orel left flangkung in ballast hile proved a rest eventful and gorable already became clear that the winter's for
enrrying as passenzers the for Haiphof Annam and cruise would be one of the most unusual
former character The Bolshevik coup d'etal had Troubles began somewhere between Clap
fother
several important French officina. already taken place in Petrograd, and, Rock and Hamo The grow, wakisting although only a very slight understanding only of absolutely inexperienced cadets. of all that it meant had yet been realized in Vladivostock, nevertheless, the sailors
was, particularly in the engine-room, by attitude towards their offers became
no, means efficient and an the cond daily more distrustful and threatening morning out from When, on November 25th, the Orel at last
ported
that Hongkong it wHN PO Kingston. got up anchor and sailed from Vladivo ortunily water absolutely refused to were all working apparently stuck she was, as regards her complement.
A ruost craft that ever How a war pennant.
exciting half-hour ensued, The condition on board was as follows, and fires were only drawn some moments There were 230 cadets who had never been before the last water sunk below the on the sen before and about 38 officers
gauge-glasses. together with a crew of 300 who
The rel was now adrift
Awnings sirtually their custodians.
were converted into trails, and as far These end the majority of the officers were tained while a general search for the
K possibli
coarse for Hainan was main- under the command of Captain
Kiditsio
the
un of the ND anomalous and queerent ritical and the boilers,
were vadets
L
cause of the trouble was commone-d..
over.
a young officer who had received his pro-Late in the evening it was discovered that motion under the old regime for distic guished
some mischler maker-probably on Slack rice against the enemy in the
The Captain of the Orel, the spy cadets heretofore mentioned-had Lieut Coramander Affanasie, had beerammed the feed-valves in such a manner elected to his
command by the crew and
that the supply of fresh water instead of Sailo Council of Vladivostock.
entering the boilers, was going board By order of the sailors all officers and
Steam was xot up again." and hy adess were anarined except for whatever of Hainan was made.
Boon the next day the north-cast corner revolvers they had managed to smuggle aboard with them. Moreover all ammuni-
YERED ON BY CHINESE tion chambers and small-arms were, and always a ticklish manœuvre, but the food floing through the Hainan Straits is kept in the elusive charge of the crew as an additional safeguard, two T.B.Ds., was well navigated and the last bacon
almost entirely by sailors, accom- manned
was just passed when another adventure panted the
expedition and kept watch in was sprung upon the vessel. From: the order to put i torpedo into the Orel upon shore a l'horse battery, without any pre- the first sign of mutiny among the officers liminary blank round, opened a hut fre Although the decks of the cruiser were
fer of presumbly ain. shells, which hurtied strewn with orange peel and sunflower over the Orl' bridge in
eds son attempt at ceremony was Fitable manner
tust inhos- made and as the strange Botilba steained
Thinking thus this onset was to be in. out of Vladivostock barbour, a great terpreted as an indication of request to ping of Haxs took place and a most blat come and any brass band blared forth the Marorder to let go anchor and the Orel Eve parley the Captain gave an seillaise from the apa-deck,"
up short in a channel which is hat littl better than a mill-race. L'nfortunately this proceedure had ng palliating feet upon the batter which kept up a most indefatigable attempt to get the range of what had now becom Signals from the Orel were anheeded, and a fixed target: fire was only stopped when the Captain tried the expedient of hoisting the British When it is is, like the Sim
UNDER FEAR OF JAPAN. Four days later the armada arrived in Nagasaki where no little dificulty was experienced in gaining admission. Under the eyes of the Japanese, however, the sailors made some external show of dis cipline, and all that took place on deck was quite of an exemplary character,
What was going on below however, White Ensign on the foremast and the was a very different
matter. Every day French Haz the ther were the wildest meetings in the remembered that the
Kailors...
flats, when all sorts of blood birsk, a quite unarmoured inerchant ves thirsty propositions were put forward assel and that one such shell as those that to how best to get rid of their officers, the boilersrom, would have sent the were being fired, if it found its way into
ing
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incident may be realized.
YESPECTED NOCTHERNERS,
ur now still further to humiliate them, whole boat aloft, the excitement of the At this time little
little incident that
that took place in the town nearly led to very seri us results. A party of five cadets hav
become
Slightly in one of cafes began to sing former Rus sian national authem, being over- heard by
*Cine of the sailors ly arrested upon their return aboard and were prompt nere courtmartialed by the saiicrs Despite all pleas of the officers they were condemned to
to le
returned
to Vradivostock
Afterwards, upon arrival in Haiphong. it was explained that Hainan was in the bands of a party of Northerners who, at the time, were expecting an attack by th Southern Fleet, and never having seen the Russian transport flag before, jumped to the conclusion that the Orel was there nemesis
more
for punishment at the hands of the Cen- This was the first of a series of trading trul Soviet-a serdict which amounted in voyages for the Orel, and money began short to a sentence of hanging: The matte few in, afficers and cadets were paid ter was only liquidated by a party of again, and by the kindness of the Freach officers with the help of a Japanese gentle- Government a barracks man smuggling the delinquents ashore Jacque
at Cap St one dark night and setting them off cadets and placed at the disposal of the train for Tokio
established theporary Naval Corps
there. THE LURE OF GOLD,"
At the beginning of the present year, This incident still further inflamed the however, things having becane sailors against the officers and cadets, and settled in Vladivostock, the cadets, by the next stage of the voyage-frem Nuga their unanimous desire, were returned to Saki
to Hongkong-yould probably have Vladivostock. Lieut.-Cominander Affana been one of much higodshed if it had sinf not been for
had no wish to return, one saving factor. This and Parently factor was the greed of the sailors. pfficers, remained with the Orel as traders he, together with a number of bis Under the naval regulations, all officers in French water. Since then they have and sailors while abroad were to receive
made two voyagea dollar for rouble, regardless of current colony of Reunion and only on their re
with rice to the
Freneb rate of exchange This reason why the sailors had consented to August last, did they receive a definite was really the turn to Saigon at the beginning of voyage, and it was the one which Lieut. Commander
by pro from the Omsk Government that Afanasiel divestock,
the were to could keep any control over the men.
return immediately to next payment was to be made in Hong- kong. and therefore to Hongkong The order also contained an intimation although the sailors had a wholesome fear hate crew, together with a new captain, of British law--they were obliged to go.
was being sent from Russia to take over. Morever they knew that if any violence and that Lieut. Commander Affanasie were done to the officers their captain would report himself forthwith at Omsk.
the necessary let On the arrival in Saigon of the new On
the
PAID OFF AT LAST
would refuse to therefore, although the tain--und-Crew Lieut Commander G
ter of credit. officers were nightly lulled to sleep to the sound of honing knives and grinding cut lasses, no bloodshed took-place and the Orel dropped anchor in Examination Bay on Christmas Eve 1917.
A BEATES CREW.
As Commodore Sandeman had received Ino advices as to the approach of the Orel,
fanasieff and his officers signed off and took passage by the Pant Leat hama for Siberia. The Orel together with to Yoko the two destroyers one of which has been lying up in Hongkong, and the other at Saigon are also at the present moment the disposal of the French Government in on their way back to Vladivostock,
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