Cherniavsky's Tragic Death From Our Own Correspondent Harbin, July 2.
The shooting affray that occurred on Sunday, June 27, has created much unrest among the local Russian population. The latter are afraid on account of the number of Russian officers who are present in Harbin, without any specific duties or employment, that organized reprisals are about to take place. The four Russian Harbin dailies all published different versions regarding the affair ro that to the uninitiated it is nearly impossible to grasp the real truth, A Requiem service in memory of the officers who were shot by Partian troops in the Ussuri district was held in the Harbin Cathedral and attended by a great number of officers and others at present "vesting" here. After the service an impromptu open air meeting was held in the church square and numerous speeches made "reactionary" character. At this meeting was present a young student Alexander Cherniavsl son of Dr. Cherniavsky who is j proprietor of the "Novosti Ji A Faray Inpiscrerroy.
Young Cherniavsky, who was associated with the newspaper "Vperiod"—("Forward"), a socialistic organ run by a group students, went to the meeting with a friend or two evidently out of curiosity and appears to have made some remarks antagonistic to the speakers which displeased those standing near by. Hot woris ensued and someone in the cro\ (evidently an anti-Simionovite) fired a revolver shot at a group of officers who had by this time surrounded Cherniavsky, wounding a militia officer accidently.
After the shot had been fired a ery was raised that Cherniavsky had fired, and officers began to set about the youth with the butt ends of their revolvers. It was with difficulty he was rescued by a certain officer, who seems to have con-vineed the others Cherniavsky was not armed. The latter with the rssistance of the officer in question and some militiamen got into a carriage and drove off. He was however followed by other officers who eventually stopped the drosky and dragged the student out of it, beating him all the time.
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