THE UNREST IN RUSSIA.
THE NAVAL ARSENAL STRIKE.
SUSPECTED INCENDIARISM AND A GREAT FIRE.
[united press association.]
LONDON, June 18. rhe ''Daily Telegraph" states that the workmen in the Baltic Shipbuilding Yard at St. Petersburg si ruck work.demending that the Government should build their vessels eniirely in Russian yards, 'lhe men in other yards, sympathising with the movement, struck '■ also.
A fire broke out at Galeeren Island where there are three Government ship! building yards, doing damage to the SoB6 3^ 000 'oablef (about A<J,086,d40). lhe firemen saved a battleship and a cruiser, the construe ion of which was almost campleted. Twenty workmen nerishsd in the flames. The strikers are sa pected of causing the fiie. "
ST. PETERSBURG, Jane 10. Ihe -are at Galeeren Island is raging over an area two miles in circumference, il reduced the first-class cruiser Witiez to a mass of moi en _etob). It consumed enormous grain reserves, and thousands of valuable naval designs. The cruißers Drek, Pallas, aud Diana wero towed out with great difficulty.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 140, 20 June 1901, Page 2
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