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Show INSURRECTION IN TRANSGAUCAStJS St. Petersburg. Bands of Insurgents Insur-gents In the district of Schnrnnkau, province of Erfvan, trans-Caucasia, ro-contly ro-contly sacked and' burned four' Armenian Arme-nian vlllnges. Subsequently, tho Insurgents Insur-gents surrounded nnd attacked Ow-llanoraschau. Ow-llanoraschau. Tho Inhabitants of thot town repulsed tho besiegers, killing 100 of them, Cossacks and othor troops stationed at tho villa&o or Khouloundlnn also repulsed an attack of tho insurgents on that place, inflicting in-flicting enormous losses on thorn nnd capturing 870 prisoners, a quantity of arms and a black standard. The Insurgent chiefs and mullahs wero executed.' ex-ecuted.' Proclamations were' found exhorting neighboring villages to Join in a war agalrist tho common enemy. Tho'agltatlo'n is spreading.' A number num-ber '-of Armenian villages containing aboil t'.-70 00' Inhabltants,have been surrounded' anil skirmishes between Tartars' and '"Kurds and tho Itusslan' troops aro frequelit.' 'The vlllnges of Ouschl and Klsch'lsKken have been burned.. Five thousamf-cossacks are' expected from Baku-to, aid .In suppressing suppress-ing tho rlBlng, Tho insurgents aro estimated to number 37,000 men. |