THE STATE OF RUSSIA.
'A REVOLUTIONARY MANIFESTO. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—CJoprrigW- '.;■:' • (BeceiTed August 27, 0.47 a.m.) ' l St. Petersburg, August 26. ' A revolutionary Socialist pub« : lished a" manifesto admitting an at-/ ; tempt on Count Obolenski's life > made in execution of a sentence of death ' passed on him because he knouted many peasants to ' death. The Tsar's approval of the cruelties countersigned Count Obolenski's death wan-ant. His assailant's revolver bore the inscription: "For the spilt blood of peasants. Death to the Tsar's hangman."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12055, 27 August 1902, Page 5
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