HORRIFYING OUTRAGES BY POLICE AND COSSACKS.
GHASTLY AND SICKENING DE-
TAILS
Received November 6, 10 p.m
ST. PETERSBURG, November 6.
There' was an unprecedented massacre at Odesisa on Friday. A gang of ruffians, headed by policemen and soldiers, sacked all Jewish houses at Moldavanka, S'tobodka, aM their suburbs. The occupants were felled and decapitated with axes. Nails were hammered into their heads, and their eyes were gouged out with pincers; Children were torn limb from limb and their brains dashed on the walls. The corpses were hurled out from the windows of every house. Aged and eick discovered in^the cellars were soaked with petroleum and incinerated.
.* The. police %nd soldiers appropriated all cash, 1 leaving the furniture to the mob. . ■ ~. .
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12647, 7 November 1905, Page 5
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