GREAT STRIKE IN RUSSIA.
SHIPBUILDING YARDS INVOLVED. SUPPOSED INCENDIARY FIRES. United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. (Received June 18, 12.36 aum.) LONDON, June 17. The “ Telegraph ” states that the workmen in the Baltic shipbuilding yard, St Petersburg, struck, requiring the Government to build vessels entirely in Russian yards. Other yards sympathising struck also. A fire broke out on Galemij Island, where there are three Government shipbuilding yards, doing damage to th© extent of 19,000,000 roubles. The firemen saved a battleship and a cruiser in course of construction, which are almost completed. Twenty workmen perished in the flames. Th© strikers axe suspected of causing the fire.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12530, 18 June 1901, Page 5
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