IN RUSSIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8794, 25 July 1914, Page 6

IN RUSSIA

STRIKERS RIOTING

CHARGES AND VOLLEYING BY COSSACKS. MANY PEOPLE KILLED AND WOUNDED. iy Teicsrapli— Press Association— Copyrlfel.ST. PETERSBURG, July 23. The strikers at Viborg cut down telegraph poles and toro up tho pavements. Overturned vans were used as barricades. and from behind these they fired on and stoned tho troops and sang revolutionary songs. In four ether districts the rioters stoned the police. In all cases the cossacks volleyed and charged. One woman and five workmen were killed and seventeen wounded. Three police wore severely and many slightly injured. x The rioters attempted to hum a bridge leading to Viborg and destroy the waterworks. MORE MEN STRIKE COLLISIONS WITH POLICE AND TROOPS. TWENTY PEOPLE KILLED; 100 WOUNDED. (Received July 23, 1 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, July 24. Tho employees of tho Government at Obukholf gun factory are joining the strike. Many have been terrorised into joining it. Collisions with the police occurred throughout Wednesday. It is estimated that twenty persons wore killed and one hundred wounded. One thousand persons assembled out of the Imperial porcelain factory and stoned the windows. Eight thousand shipbuilders* at Nikollefr have struck. They sang revolutionary songs, and several were wounded in a collision with the troops. Tho police arrested thirty of the strike committee, including the editorial staffs of two Labour newspapers. ■