A FIERCE ENCOUNTER.
MOB AVENGES ITS LEADER S DEATH, (Received Jan. 25, 10 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 25. The Daily Express slates that afscr the reservists had joined the c r owd at Radojn several companies of infantry, aided by tins gendarmes and jiolice, fired on the mob to restore order. Some of the workmen violently resisted, and their leader lirtd a revolver and kilietl the commander of the first company. The second company's commander fell to another workman's revolver, and the gendarmes were ordered to shoot tin; ringleaders, one of whom was badly wounded. Soldiers advanced to despatch him, and a desperate struggle ensued. To protect the soldiers the inob were bayonetted back, and gendarmes hacked at till' prostrate leader with swords till he was dead. Tlie infuriated mob rushed wildly at the soldiers, and in the hand to hand fight whidh resulted fifty soldiers and a hundred workmen "and reservisis were klJod. Later on the military lii<ed bullets among the assemblages erf people in the streets, many victims falling
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7722, 26 January 1905, Page 3
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170A FIERCE ENCOUNTER. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7722, 26 January 1905, Page 3
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