TROUBLE IN RUSSIA-
THIRTY-FOUR GIRLS POISONED. By tel*gr*j>h, Pres* An'o, Copyright St. Petersburg, Maroh 25, Offloial reports show that 14,130 persons were killed and 19,524 wounded in the Russian disorders in 1905. Russian newspapers assume that the Government have minimised the figures. Fires st Moscow prison hospital revealed the fact that politioal suspeots were chained to beds by iron rings round their body. An unknown miscreant poisoned 84 spinniug girls at Pabiancio, for refusing to strike. The flsor of the workroom was strewn with a poisonous powder, whiob the girls inhaled. Eleven are expeoted to die. London, Maroh 25, Reuter’s St. Petersburg correspondent states that the Donma elections are in full swing. Order prevails everywhere. GIRL HORRIBLY TORTURED. By, telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright Received 12.23 a.m., Maroh 27. St, Petersburg, March 26. The Russian estimates have been recalled for reduotion.
After awful tortures to oompel her to confess, a girl student at Spiridorna was sentenced to death for assnsination of the Vice-Governor of Tamboff.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1709, 27 March 1906, Page 3
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