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Show PETROGRAD BANK IS ROBBED OF MO , 10 Bandit. Kill and Wound Citizens in Reign of Terror on Streets. Untied Prase Staff Correspondent. PETROGRAD, June I Ten masked bandits In the moat approved Jeaaa James style held up the Oceanic Bank of Uek, terrifying the town, stealing 104.000 rubles (about $14.1001 and a number of valuable documents. Several Sev-eral townspeople were killed an wounded when the bandits went through the streets demanding everybody's every-body's valuable. Then ten got safely body's valuables. The ten got safely repressive measure by the government today to put down crime. All court procedure waa practically mad to conform con-form to martial law. Under the new plan, a jury may consist of three soldier sol-dier and even the prosecutor may be a member of the army, although preference pref-erence la expressed for a civilian. It appeared likely today that the government govern-ment would be forced to Intervene In the controversy between the Sublen-ekle Sublen-ekle ooal operators and their men aver wage. Tli einplurei ais dslemiln edly resisting demand of the miners of whom T5 per cent are German prisoners pris-oners for a wage of t ruble (about 14.12) a day. Instead of I ll ) The German prisoner workmen agree to give a fifth of their new wage to Russian prisoners In Germany and three-tenth to the orphan of Russian oldlers. The mine operator Insist that the Germans have all saved up Severn I hundred ruble each and are the beet dreseed workmen In the mines. Forty-four Russian soldiers, employes em-ployes of the American ambulance corps at the front, today voted to enter the Legion of Death, an organisation forming all over Russia now and wit! the avowed purpose of fighting the Germans to a standstill. Dr. Philip Newton, an American surgeon and member of the ambulance corps, left today for the front to Join the same organisation. |