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Show RUSS ANARCHISTS SEIZE NEWSPAPER PETROGRAD, June 18, via London, June 19. The building of the newspaper Russkia Volia, Petrograd's richest and most largely circulated newspaper, was seized this afternoon by a corps of armed anarchists, who expelled the staff, destroyed de-stroyed all the copies of the paper and the books and declared that they would stand siege. The Russkia Volia is particularly hated by the anarchists because it strongly supported sup-ported the provisional government and attacked the Bolsseviki and other extremists. ex-tremists. When the government learned of this action by the anarchists it ordered or-dered stringent measures. General Po-lovtsefT, Po-lovtsefT, commander of the Petrograd troops, sent a large force of Cossacks, infantry and machine guns and surrounded surround-ed the building. The commander of the troops sent a message demanding their surrender. The anarchists entered into negotiations with the commander and later, under threat of military action, the anarchists, realizing realiz-ing their position was hopeless, surren-, dered. Seventy of them were marched to jail. |