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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1234, 26 January 1905, Page 2

Want of funds aro opening to staple St Petersburg strike.' •; ': S'' Some of the masters are wil|ing f io cofl.^- / cede nine hours a day, ' ' %■ ; ■ STRIKERS ATTACKED . INFANTRY , J\ \ RESERVISTS HELS4S&E MOB \ LABOUR LEADER HACKED TO ' ' r- DEATH • MILIT4FY COMMANDER KILLED J . Preea Association .—Copyright. ' London, January 25. i The D'tily Express that a f ter the ■ ; : reservists joined tue ,orpwd. at Radom j . several companies of. lntyntifyi aided the gendarmes. 4 V The police fired to restore order, and the workmen violently resisted them. V . The leader fired a revolyer'and killed the commander of the first company, ani the second oommander fell tij another ■ ■ ■• workman's revolver, 5 > The gendarmes were ordered to shoot the tingleador. i V The latter was badly wonnd4, and the 1 soldiers advanoed to despatch j him. A j

desperate ensned to pwteot him, ! The mob were bayoneted baok,' and the gendarmes haoked the prostrate 1 leader to 'i dei'h with their sworda. , •' 'The infuriated mob rushed wildly atthe '< 'O'diers, and a hand to hand fight followed, Fifty soldiers and a hundred workmen ' and reservists were killed, • Later the military fi'ed bullets at the ''Tassemblages, and there were many yic* ;:> tims. ,;K

NflW ZEALAND SYMPATHY . By Telegraph.—Press Association. i ; Weluhgiok, this day. (jjjfl The Wellington branch of tbe.New Zealand Socialists have oarried a resold. <• > -y, lion protesting against the , dastardly p|j treatment of the Russian Socialists and - Labour Party. ' ; , At & meeting last night a resolution was | :'f| carried "that aoommitteobe formed for ■■ !{is| the purpbse of promoting a publio meeting i to protest, against tho treatment new being, acoorded to the people of Russia by their ( |i rulers, and to consider what steps should be taken to express sympathy towards them." Bj