Tragedy at Requiem Mass Harbin, Juno 97.
This morning during a_ re-quiet service for 103 officers, including Colonel. Vrashtel, an address was being delivered, extolling the dead, when Cherniaysky, son of the editor of the "Vovosti Jijni?, uttered remarks, insulting the dead officers. The assembly became furious and appeared ready to tear the offender to pieces. The militia and some officers attempted to surround Cherniavsky with a view to handing him over to the military authorities. Cherniavsky fired at Colonel Meyer, who drew his revolver and shot and killed Cherniavsky. There was a large crowd present and there are many conflicting reports with regard to further details, which are at present too confused for anything definite to be made of them.
Peking, June 28, The Russian papers here, which published the notice of the requiem service at Harbin, state that the dead were all General Simionov's officers, who were killed by the Bolsheviks during Easter week on the bank of the River Hor between
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.