REVOLT OF COSSACKS
SUBDUED BY GAS BOMBS ONE THOUSAND ASPHYXIATED. PARIS, July 9. (Received July 10, at 1 a.m.) Le Matin has received reports from Warsaw that 25,000 Cossacks stationed in the Caucasus revolted against the Government, which despatched aeroplanes; Gas bombs were dropped on the Cossacks, 1000 of them being asphyxiated. Great damage was done to crops and farms.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21383, 10 July 1931, Page 9
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60REVOLT OF COSSACKS Otago Daily Times, Issue 21383, 10 July 1931, Page 9
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