Warship Plot To Seize Czar.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 13, 1912:
Sensational Story from Odessa of Conspiracy That Failed.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Tuesday, Aug. 13.— A telegram from Odessa to The Daily News says:
    "The truth of the revolutionary plot aboard the battleship Ivan Zlataoust at Sevastopol, the timely discovery of which resulted in the arrest of sixteen seamen and petty officers, ten of whom were sentenced to death and four shot, is only now leaking out.
    "In one sense the conspiracy, had it had time to mature, had a more amazingly daring object in view than that which led to the revolutionary mutiny on the battleship Kniaz Potemkine in June, 1905.
    "The purpose of the naval plotters was to seize the imperial yacht Standart, while the Czar and imperial family were being conveyed from Yalta to Sevastopol en route to Tsarskoe-Selo. The Czar was to have been compelled to abdicate or abrogate his autocratic power and proclaim a limited monarchy and a really constitutional regime.
    "The seizure of the imperial family was to have been the signal to a mutinous Baltic squadron, the crews of which were to have murdered or arrested all their officers and attacked Kronstadt and St. Petersburg simultaneously.
    "An urgent order was issued a few days ago to the officers of all grades of the Black Sea fleet forbidding them, under pain of degradation and dismissal, to discuss the political unrest among the fleet equipages with any outside persons and civilians, or even with their wives.
    "The whole commissioned personnel were compelled to sign this urgent injunction.
    "A rigid censorship is exercised over all references in the press to the recent disquieting symptoms of grave disaffection among the rank and file of the army and navy."

    A mutiny occurred, on board the battleship Tsarevitch on May 8. when the vessel was stationed at Helsingfors. After the mutiny was quelled sixty of the crew were placed under arrest. The cause of the trouble was alleged to be the unrest which had prevailed in the Government yard at Helsingfors since 200 men were dismissed for taking a holiday on May 1.
    After the arrest of the dissatisfied members of the crew the Tsarevitch sailed for a destination that was not announced.