RUSSIA'S REVOLUTIONARY STRIKES.
(Bx Buomo TmiaaaPH-CoFTMOHT.) .*•'■■ .'.■■ ~rpim:Pwm My 28. ! Staikers at Viborg cu£ down telegraph poles, tore up iMavements, overturned vaiia and used them as barricades whence they fired on and stoned the troops. Tliey sang revolutionary, songs. In four other district* the rioters stoned the police. In all cases the Cossacks volleyed and charged. One woman/ and five workmen were killed) and sever*teen persons were wounded. Three police were severely and many slightly, injured.
The rioters attempted to bnrn/the bridge leading to Viborg arid destroy the waterworks. Five thousand workers in the Baltic shipyards have joined the strikers. One hundred and fifty tramcars have been smashed and burned.
The Novoe Vreniya charges Germany with fomenting the strike.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9855, 24 July 1914, Page 5
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