Russian Rioters.
THE KILLED & WOUNDED. ________ STATE OF CIVIL WAR. [By Emotbio Tilkgbaph—Oopteight) [United Press Association.] (Eeccived 8.50 a.m.) St. Petersburg, July 23. Strikers at Viborg cut down the telegraph poles, tore up the pavements, and overturned vans and used them as barricades, from behind which they fired on and stoned the troops and sang revolutionary songs. In four other districts, the rioters stoned the police.
_ In all cases, the Cossacks fired volleys in return and charged.
One woman and five workmen were killed, and seventeen wounded. Three police were severely and many slightly injured. The rioters attempted to burn the bridge leading to Viborg and destroy the waterworks.
JOINING THE STRIKE. St. Petersburg, .July 23. Five thousand workers in the Baltic shipyards have joined the strike. One hundred and fifty tramcars were smashed and burned. The Novoe Vremya charges Germany with fomenting the strike.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 79, 24 July 1914, Page 5
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144Russian Rioters. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 79, 24 July 1914, Page 5
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