RIOTS AT LENA
CABLE NEWS!
(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) "
SYMPATHETIC RUSSIAN [SAILORS
BROUGHT IN IRONS TO ST
PETERSBURG
(Received May 13, 8.20 a.m.)
ST. PETERSBURG, May 1"
Twenty sailors 'belonging to the warships at Helsingfors ihave been brought in irons to St. Petersburg for attempting to hold a requiem service for tho victims of the riots at Lena.
(There was serious fighting last month at" the gold-washing workg -at Lena, Eastern Siberia, between the soldiers ajid the workmen. The miners were subjected to la merciless fire by the military, and many were shot wfaSlst crawling to Shelter. Over a hundred miners were killed, and many were wounded. Demonstrations of protest at the soldiers' action was: held in St. Petersburg, but were put down by the military, many being arrested. A hundred thousand men also struck as a protest.)
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19120514.2.19.31
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10635, 14 May 1912, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
140RIOTS AT LENA Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10635, 14 May 1912, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in