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Show Troops RJi Women I ! IN LODZ SHEETS I Two Thousand Killed I and Wounded. I Carnival of Bloodshed, Riot and Anarchy in Rus- In Revenge for Comrades Killed in Parade, Workmen Inaugurate a Rign of Terror. ST PETERSBURG. June . 1:20 a. m -St Petersburg Is without definite news of the happenings on Friday and last night at Lodz and thero Is the keenest apprehension that Saturday may have been marked by a renewal of the battle of Friday, tho dead of which aro uppar-ently uppar-ently to be numbered by the hundreds Nothing approaching tho disorders, which passed far beyond tho scale of recent deme.nstratlons and approximated tho dignity of actual Insurrection, recalling tho days of the "commune" In Paris has been recorded in Russia since the street lighting at Warsaw during the Polish revolutions of 1830 and let Opposed by Armed Multitude. The events of January 22 In St Peters-burg Peters-burg "Red Sunday" were merely the dU-persal dU-persal of unarmeel crowds by soldiers. but at Lodz the troops were desperately opposed by an army of (50.000 worklngrnen. many armeel with revolvers, defending substantial barricades with bullets and showers of paving stones and other mis-slles mis-slles and even bombs. Like Turkestan War. The Industrial quarters wero apparently largely In tho hands of the manlfestants and tho task of tho troops was akin to that of the Russian soldiej-s in the war In Turkestan when towns rrad to bo stormed street by street, almost house to house Under Eire of Revolvers. The demolition of the barricades at Lodz required regular sappers' work under tho tire of revolvers and showers of missile-. JH from windows of houses, and in which the troops suffered heavily The military Governor had at his disposal four n-gi-ments of Infantry and two of cavalry. Tho last barricades wero taken at 4 'o'clock Saturday morning A dispatch received by way of Warsaw estimates tho number of slain Indefinite-ly Indefinite-ly at ' several hundred workmen' and sixty soldiers, but no definite statement has yet been received, another dispatch direct from Lodz, giving fe.rty dead, being admittedly Incomplete. Riots Start in Waisaw. An outbreak similar In nature to that at Lodz Is threatened at Warsaw, where the Industrial population Is much larger, the discontent and bitterness e-exuallv widespread and tho feeling Inflamed by the events at Lodz. A dispatch late last night frenn Warsaw reported tho Initial blooelshed. It said tho workmen were gathered in largo crowds and assuming a menacing attitude. Tho revolutionists had accumulated a considerable stock of bombs at Warsaw and expected to em-ploy em-ploy them at every opportunity against the Cossacks and Infantry. |