TROUBLES IN RUSSIA.
FAMINE STRICKEN PEASANTS SEIZE - A GR4NARY. i DISOBEDIENT TBOOPS PUNISHED. , PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received 7,0.22 a m. St. Petersburg, M«y 6. P&ysants raided 'he State granary at Tomsk, dispers : n« and killing vnany of the police. One hundred p a-nn*R hid died of famine pri>. r to the r«vol\ Martial Ik w has b-en proclaimed in five distric's of Poltava. London, May 6. The Morning leader ffates that five hundred infancy at Poltw. d - clined to fire on tbe crowd, includu g women and girls, who were armed with reaping hooks and hay forks. The troops declared they frould not shoot All were courtmartialled, and every tenth mail shot. The remainder were degraded and sentenced to penal servitude. An army order has been issued declaring that troops should be soldiers 'first and citizens afterwards. They must shoot straight as on the battlo- ___________
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 106, 7 May 1902, Page 3
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145TROUBLES IN RUSSIA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 106, 7 May 1902, Page 3
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