Starving Peasants Seek the Towns.
A Sidelight on Russian Police
Methods.
How They Sav^e Their Agents.
Received Augusjt 24, 8.41 a.m. ST.' PETERSBURG, August 23. Crowds of ragged peasants from the famine-stricken districts are arriving at Moscow.
Wholesale arrests have been made in Warsaw/ including the leading Polish Socialists.
Excitement prevails at Helsingfora, owing to the remoyal on a torpedoer of two Eussian police, who acted as agents and provocateurs in the January disorders. They were tried by^ihe Finnish Courts, but were allowed to*-stay in the military hospital for three weeks on the ground of illness. Their removal has now taken them outside Finnish jurisdiction.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11645, 24 August 1905, Page 5
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105Starving Peasants Seek the Towns. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11645, 24 August 1905, Page 5
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