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Show U MASSACRE ENRAGESJTROOPS Workmen Invade Rubber Factory Fac-tory and Slaughter Sleeping Sleep-ing Dragoons. SUMMARY VENGEANCE RY SOLDIERS IS FEARED Heavy (onion Now Surrounds Ruins and Inquiry Is Ordered. RIGA, Livonia, Wednesday, .Tan 3, by courier to St. Petersburg, Thursday. Jan There was no conflict between ttK' troops and th- revolutionists tr , jj thanks to the extremely stringent me. "V' ures taken hy ( Jov ernor-t '..n.-i ,' Sollogub. The soldiers, however, aro In a very bitter mood, owing to the mussacre of their comrades, com-rades, and it is feare.i they Will get out of hand and execute summary vengi inc on the workmen of the Provodnik rubber factory, who have surrendered. The Governor-General, therefore, today Ordered an ofTUIal Inquiry and promises that the guilty shall be punished. Troops Sirround Ruins. A heavy cordon of troops now surrounds the ruins of the factory Tho soldiers are searching all comers and are making vlsl- i tatlons to all houses In the neighborhood, .. Ml battering down the- doors wherever there Is the slightest delay In opening them. JT With axes, which are imw supplied n, v'i every soldier. f The troops today took possession of the offices In tho Lettish Socialist organ ' L'enls lapa, and arr-.-t-d th" editorial ! force. Twelve men were killed in the Pobonik i I factorj ' I |