THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE.
twenty thousand people
PERISH.
By Electric Telegrapli—Per Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, 'May 24. ’ The sum of twenty-six thousand , pounds has been, collected in India, J and six thousand pjounds in England’* - J for sufferers by the rcaent earth- ■ I quakes, ' ' “ Tho total njumjbor of dead is twen- ■ - ty thousand-. 1 FURTHER DISTURBANCES^ ST, PETERSBURG, May. 24.A bomb severely Injured .the ‘ Chief of Police at SiQdUe. Hie was seated on the verandah, of a club at the ' time. The thrower of the bomb escaped. It is reported at Kieff that a plot ? to kidnap, and hold the Czarevitch ’ for ransom until fulfillment of, the so? | cial, democratic revolutionary programme, was discovered,, owing to treachery. Many domestics of the Royal suite were dismissed.; : . A goods train ami passenger carriage were derailed near Kharkolf, Many were killed and injured. Since the .promulgation of tho Im- » penial ukase granting religious free- .1 dom to dissenters,, twenty-six thousand United Greeks in the Governments of ,‘jiedlice and Berlin have left the Orthodox for the Roman Catholic Church. c The authorities are furious, and have for,hidden.. the Polish press to, refer to the subject.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1464, 26 May 1905, Page 2
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189THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE. Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1464, 26 May 1905, Page 2
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