RIOTS IN RUSSIA.
SCENES IN ST. PETERSBURG(EIeottio Telegraph— Copyright- United Press Akaociatlon.! (Received March 20, 8.55 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, March 19. The Countess Tolstoi has protested to the Synod against the excommunication of her husband. Workmen joined the pro-Tolstoi students at St. Petersburg, rioting inside the Kazan Cathedral. The rioters were ejected after some fierce fighting, the Cossacks using whips brutally. Several women and children were crushed. Seven hundred students were arrested. One hundred students protested to the Holy Synod against- Count Tolstoi's excommunication, and petitioned the Metropolitan to excommunicate them also. They assembled m the Cathedral, (mouttng, smjiking,! upsetting images, and whistling, whiie communion was being prepared. A great riot occurred at Nearsky, owing to the military preventing the celebration of the anniversary of the death of a heroine who was the victim of political tyranny. , A revolutionary proclamation headed "Down with the Czar" was scattered broadcast. All the military and police m St. Petersburg were required to restore order.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9101, 20 March 1901, Page 3
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