MANCHURIAN REVOLT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13048, 13 December 1905, Page 5

MANCHURIAN REVOLT.

AN ORGIE AT HARBIN. THE TOWN SACKED. St. Petersburg, December 11. When the troops at Harbin learned that they would not be sent home until the spring, and thus would be compelled to face the winter on scarce supplies of food and clothing, thousands paraded * the streets like banditti, and burned shops and plundered houses. t Some seized, an express train bound for Vladivostok, while others raided the Government's stores, and returned laden with supplies of vodka, several machine guns, many rifles, and much ammunition. A great orgie followed, and when the men were savagely drunk Harbin was. sacked, .and. the mutineers m ed the machine, guns freely. v The drunken ; mutineers raided the hospitals. The comforts for the patients were eaten, and doctors and nurses were bound and thrown into the snowdrifts. Many Russian and Chinese civilians have been murdered. Some of the officers who sympathised with the mutineers opened wheat and flour storehouses, but the mob burned them all. _ _ _> * The troops 'cheered the sight of the burning city.' " General Madowiloff's cavalry attacked the rioters, and' a' bloody fight at close quarters ensued. •