TROUBLED RUSSIA
GREAT FIRE IN THE CAPITAL
MILITIA STRIKE FOR HIGHER PAY. iPBIMSHED IN THE TIME!.)
(Received August 27, 2.30 p.m.) PETROGRAD, 26th August. ' Fire has destroyed the Okhta quarter of Petrograd. One hundred and twenty people were killed or injured. The militia, which have been substituted for the police since the revolution, have resigned, in a body because they were refused increased pa.y.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 49, 27 August 1917, Page 8
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