RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY DARING.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 244, 12 October 1907, Page 13

RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY DARING.

FIVE YOUNG MEN HOLD A COTTAGE AGAINST THE CZAR'S TROOPS. Five young men left Odessa by an evening train ou August 20th for the little township of Krivoye-Osero, and were seen to proceed, one by one, to an empty cottage. The police at once went io investigate. An entrance to the empty cottage was demanded, but no reply was given. The ofßcer ordered his men to force the door. On the moment he was stretched dead by two shots from a window, and one of the gendarmes was badly woundedThe police inspector now huriedly sent to the neighbouring garrison for assistance, which came very quickly in the shape of fifty infantrymen and fifty Cossacks. Again the inmates of the cottage were called upon to surrender, and the soldiers | opened a volley attack. This was instantly checked by well aimed revolver j tire. This siege and defence then continued for eighteen hours, and the improvised fort of the five young revolutionaries was only surrendered when their ammunition was speyit. From the corner of an upper window came a hand which fluttered a white handkerchief. The cottage door was then opened by a young man in a red shirt, tifft flung down his lovolver. Close within the threshold lay _<: body of one of his companions, but the other three had escaped. The, one prisoner capture! explained that his dead comrade had been wounded in the shoulder,, and, with the la»<L cartridge in his revolver, had shot himself through the temple. It is assumed that tha empty cottage was being utilised as a bomb factors-.