RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY DARING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3777, 12 November 1907, Page 3

RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY DARING.

Five Young Men Hold a Cottage Against the Czar’s Troops. Five young men left Odessa by an evening train on August 20th for the little township of KrivoyeOsero, and were seen to proceed, one by one, to an empty cottage. The police at once went to investigate. An entiance to the empty cottage was demanded, but no reply was given. The officer ordeied his men to force the door. On the moment he was stretched dead by two shots from a window, and one of the gendarmes was badly wounded. The police inspector now hurriedly sent to the neighboring garrison for assistance, which came very quickly in the shape of fifty infantrymen and fifty Cossacks. Again the inmates of the cottage were called upon to surrender, and the soldiers opened a voile}' attack. This was instantly checked by well aimed revolver fire. The siege and defence then continued for eighteen hours, and the improvised fort of the five revolutionaries was only surrendered when their ammunition was spent. From the corner of an upper window came a hand which fluttered a white handkerchief. The cottage door was then opened by a young man in a red shirt, who flung down his revolver. Close within the threshold lay the body of one of his companions, but the other three had escaped. The one prisoner captured explained that his dead comrade Uad been wounded in the shoulder, and, with the last cartridge in his .revolver, had shot himself through the temple. It is assumed that the empty cottage was. being utilised as a bomb factor}'.