Position in St Petersburg
General Strike Declared
Carnage ai Odessa
Terrible Work by Machine Onus
(Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) St Petersburg, July s Alexis lgnstiefi: is proceeding (o Odessa. Ho has extraordinary power. A general alriko has been doctored at St Petersburg, and mobilisation in the city has been suspended, The promulgation of General Bnlyguino's sohomo has been postponed for ii fortnight. An increase of wages has paciliod tho Kronstadt strikers. Seven million sterling is tho estimated damage dona at Odessa, The inhabitants are in estate of frenay owing to tho military violence. It has been ascertained that 1,800 wore killed and 3,000 wounded on Wednesday, the majority succumbing to the machine gun used against (ho crowd. A hundred and twonty men and women drank stolon spirits and fell asleep"on a coal heap, and.the machine guns riddled them to death, Another instance is recorded whore 200 fngiiives wore slaughtered instead of being ai-rested,,
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1369, 4 July 1905, Page 2
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