Disturbed Russia.
FEARS OF MASSACRE. AN OFFICIAL AVOWAL OF IMPOTENCE. St. PeterrbUßG, March 16. A resident of Baku states that during the original disturbances the Tartars besieged the large house of Adamoft. a tradesman, who, from the balcony, shot thirty-three Tartars before falling. Thereupon the crowd fired petroleum at Adamoff’s doorway and nineteen inmates were suffocated. Thousands are daily leaving Baku, fearing a massacre. The peasant rising is extending. Sixty districts are affected. Bouliguine declares his inability to guarantee tranquility in the event of mobilisation. By a violent explosion in Theatre Square, Moscow, several persons were wounded. One of those injured has been arrested. Owing to the strikes, Russia has ordered large supplies of shrapnel from Austria. McCullough’s papers included revolutionary proclamation pamphlets, chemical formulas for the manufacture of explosives more powerful than lyddite, drawings of infernal machines, and notes respecting the Imperial reßidences,
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3498, 18 March 1905, Page 3
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144Disturbed Russia. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3498, 18 March 1905, Page 3
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