RUSSIAN STRIKE RIOTS.
A GRAVE SITUATION.
STREETS SWARM WITH POLICE.
SEVERAL yOLLEYS FIRED.
THE DISTURBANCES SPREADING
By Cable. —Prets Association. —Copyright. ST. PETERSBURG, July 22.
The strikers are regarded as a recrudescence of the revolutionary movement. | and as reflecting tlie strike of oil-1 workers at Baku against inhuman conditions, coupled with police tyranny. One hundred.and sixty thousand men are idle in St. Petersburg. Many newspapers are not being published.
The streets are swarming with police ami Cossacks.
The disturbances have been renewed at Viborg, where barricades were erected and many police injured.
The police fired volleys and wounded several strikers.
The movement, is spreading and as sinning a Pan-Russian character.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 143, 23 July 1914, Page 7
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