RUSSIA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9074, 24 April 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA.

A FIERCE ENCOUNTER

[press association.] (Received April 24, 9.25 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, April 23. - Two thousand Catholics were endeavoring to recapture a church in Moscow dis-~ trict When a fierce encounter with tihe' 'Marriavites took place. Twelve were kill* 1 «d /and fifty wounded. The Marriavites' would not allow the surgeons to tend the wounded FATHER GAPON 'REPORTED TO BE HANGED. (Received April 24,, 9.35 a.m.) . ST. PETERSBURG, April 23. It is reported in Russia that four.revO" lutionary, laborers hanged Father Gapon, after overhearing bin 1 trying to persuade a revolutionary leader to become a police spy like himself.