POLICE AND COSSACKS LET LOOSE.
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Received November 3, 7.45 a.m. Renter's correspondent at -Kazan reports thiat apparently on the nights of the 28tlh and 29fch, the Cossacks and the police were let loose 7 and permitted to kill and plunder ait will. They pillaged many shops, and fired their.'rales indiscriminately wherever they saw lights in the -windows. Peaceable pedestrians traversing the streets were ruthlessly shot down, and \in one street the roadway was converted into a shlamibles, t!he blood lying in pools. Blood dyed the snow in front of-the ecclesiastical buildings. The population are wild with rage, and the municipality has protested to the Governor, who stated in reply tibat the Chief of Police had resigned, and that he had confined the Cossacks to barracks.
The Governor also authorised the civic militia to preserve order, and released the political prisoners. The crowd removed the arms from the police headquarters for the use. of the town militia.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12645, 4 November 1905, Page 5
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160POLICE AND COSSACKS LET LOOSE. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12645, 4 November 1905, Page 5
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