BLOODSHED IN RUSSIA.
STARVING PEi> GANTRY.
SHOOTING OF HOOPERS
By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.
ST PETERSBURG, May Cf
Peasants raided the State granary at *1 ukarlinsk ‘and Tomsk, dispersing and killing many police. A hundred peasants had died of the famine prior to the revolution.
Martial law was proclaimed "in five districts at Poltava.
LONDON, May fi. The Morning Leadrr s'atcs that five hundred infantry at Poltava declined to fire on the crowd, which included women and girls, who were - rmed with reaping hooks and hay forks,, troops should lie soldiers first and citizens afterwards. Ail were court-martialled.
Every tenth man ms shot. The remainder were degraded and sentenced to penal servitude. An Army Order des’ared that the troops should be slruild be soldiers first and citizens afterwards.
They must, the Order staled, shoot straight, like on the battlefield.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 409, 7 May 1902, Page 2
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