Quoting the dispatch to the Sanomat at Helsing (###) the Morning Post reports serious pogroms took place on January 19 and 20 at Kursk. Workmen, peasants, and socialists of the Red Army participated in the rioting, the report continued, resulting in the murder of “Hundreds of thousands”.
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