RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY DARING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 8 November 1907, Page 4

RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY DARING.

FIVE YOUNG MEN HOLD A COTTAGE AGAINST THE CZAR'S TROOPS. i! ive young men left Odessa by an evening train on August 20th for the little township of Krivoye-O»sero, <uid were seen to proceed, one by one, to un empty iottage. The police at once went to investigate. An entrance to the empty cottage was demanded, but no reply was given. The officer ordered his men to force flu; door, (hi the moment he was stretched dead by two shots from a window, and one of the geridornios was badly wounded. The police inspector now hurriedly smit to the neighboring garrison for assistance, which came very quickly in tlie shape of fifty infantrymen- and fifty Cossacks.

Again the inmates of the cottage wore called upon to surrender, and the soldiers opened a volley attack. This was instantly checked by well aimed revolver fire. This siege and defence then continued for eighteen hours, and the improvised fort of the five young revolutionaries was only surrendered when their ammunition was spent. from the comer of an upper window came a hand which fluttered a white kindkerchief. The cottage dooT was then opened by a young man in a red shirt, who flung down his revolver. Close within the threshold lay the body of one of his companions, but the other three had escaped. The one prisoner captured explained that his dead comrade had been wounded in the shoulder, and, with the last cartridge in his revolver, had shot himself through the temple. It is assumed that the empty cottage was being utilised as a bomb factory.