PRINCE AND HIS TENANTS.
i Revolt Leads to Bloodshed. ST. PETEHSBUSG, August 28. The tenants of Prince Innkbrausky, in! the Caucasus, recently refused their land- '. rd the proportion of their crops to liich he was entitled under the terms f the tenancy. The police then went lto their barns and took away the: -rinc.-i share of _he wheat. Peasants to the cumber of 1000 armed ; : iemsc-!ves with pitchforks and bludgeons: nd demanded restitution. Cossacks who were ordered to disperse j he peasants, charged them, and then; ..oured volleys into them. Seventy of -he peasants were killed and wounded. Later the peasants tried to shoot Prince inukbrausky.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 206, 29 August 1905, Page 5
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