MUTINIES IN GAOL.
RUSSIAN EPISODES. TWO WAHDERS MEET THEIR DEATH. DASH FOR, LIBERTY. BY TBLEGBAPn —FRES3 ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. (Rec. April 16, 10.43 p.m.) London, April 16. Router's correspondent at St. Petersburg states that eleven political prisoners, who were imprisoned at Penza, killed two .warders.and wounded' a third, and then escaped, by means of the roof, through a;hole in the ceiling of their oell. ' While tliey wore lowering themselves with rop&s, made of bed-clothes, a warder shot one. Tho others flung a powerful bomb, and succeeded in reaching' open country. Tho guards hotly pursued/ and killed seven of the fugitives. Threo escapcd. A TOBOLSK CASE. - ■ ' (Rcc. April 18, 0.42 a.m.) St. Potersburg, April 17. 1 The thirteen prisoners at Tobolsk have been sentenced death for mutinying and killing a warder. CANADIAN IMMIGRATION. AGAINST EXCLUSION. BT TELEGRAM—PRESS. ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Rec. April 16, 10.43 p.m.) •> Ottawa, April' 6. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada, refused the Asiatic Exclusion League's demand that Canada should excludo Asiatics by legislation ■ of the-Austra-lian pattern. . .■! > ■ -■ • . ; / .RTJSH' OF AMERICAN FARMERS. Ottawa, April 16. < There is an extraordinary rush of American farmers to Western Canada. ■
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 175, 18 April 1908, Page 5
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