RUSSIA.
BOYS AND GIRLS SENT TO SIBERIA. Press Assn —By telegraph—Copyright. (Received' March 19, 9.45 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, March 18. The Senate rejected the appeal of six schoolboys and girls, aged sixteen and belonging to the town of Possensony, and sent the Avhole of them to exile in Siberia for taking part in the organisation of the Revolutionary Association in 1907. EPIDEMIC Oh' SUICIDES. (Received March 19, 10.15 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, March 18. There is an epidemic of neurasthenic suicides in this city. Tavo sisters, Kollmann, aged 16 arid 20, and a friend, Mdlle. Lauriez, lieiresfc to tAVO millions sterling, drank poison after playing Chopin's funeral march. They left letters stating they Avere tired of life. Fifteen other suicides, mostly of girls, Avere recorded yesterday, and on an earlier day there were 29, including 1(5 Avomen and three children.
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Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 66, 19 March 1910, Page 5
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