RIOT AT LENINGRAD.
PROVISION STORE STORMED. DEMONSTRATORS SHOT DOWN. STOCKHOLM. .Tune 11. The Aftonbladet reports that serious riots occurred at Leningrad where starving people stormed and demolished a great provision store and plundered the stock. Troops were called out, but refused to fire on the mob. Tho military commander then called ojit the Gheka troops who fired upon the crowds and charged them with bayonets. Many dead and wounded wero left lying in the streets. Tho correspondent says the Cheka now is the only reliable force remaining to tho Soviet authorities.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20898, 13 June 1931, Page 9
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