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Show .. . -iii .I, STORY EXAGGERATED. - ,, - Distorted Account, of Russian .Riot j I nlLondon Newspaper. " ' Nlnsk, Western Jlussln: Tho report published in a London newspaper that 1 00 persons woro shot during tho rioting riot-ing hero recontly is Incorrect. Thero was a otroot riot hero Thursday on Cathedral .square botween soldiers and Jows. It was' provoked according to tho official .version by tho theft of n purso from, a soldlor off duty. His qomrndes boat a .Tow, whorcupfm a crowd of nbout COO of tho latter's 'cp-rollgloiilsts 'cp-rollgloiilsts gathered to roscuo him. Tho Jews used stones and rovolvers nnd the troops were summoned. They fired Into and dispersed tho crowd with tho result thnt ono Jow was killed and twenty woro wounded and a soldlor waB shot. Tho chief of pollco sustained a wound on tjie hcnd.by a flying mlsstlo and ono policeman was fiovcroly wounded. |