TROUBLE IN RUSSIA.
WHOLE SALE M U RDER. BOMBS BULLETS AND BAYONETS
I'XiKSS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT Received 9.55 p.m , August 10.
St. Petersburg, August 16. Three bombs wrecked the police statroi
at Lodz. _ The bombs killed a policeman, a Oos ■ sacli, and three infantry men. Infantry occupied the adjoining streets and made one hundred arrests Later on tho infantry patrols fired volleys in all directions in four streets, killing two, and wounding twenty-one severely and many slightly. Traffic was suspended arid the shops closed A policeman was murdered in the evening. . Revolutionists at Woolawek shot, anu killed the chief of police and the chief of
the Rural police. The assassins escaped A message from Warsaw states that the revolutionists have organised wholesale shooting of police. They killed seventeen policemen, four gendarmes, and seven infantry, and wounded seventeen policemen and soldiers The latter firing a volley in reply, killed fifteen and wounded one hundred and thirty with bullets and bayonets. Two bombs thrown at Chlodner Street Police Station, Warsaw, wounded two policemen and infantrymen.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1836, 17 August 1906, Page 2
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