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The wars & local soldiers, 1893

61 stories in Murray's papers · page 4 of 4

Fatal Banquet at St. Petersburg. Thirty-six Soldiers Poisoned. London, December 23

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 December 1893 · page 21

No fewer than 36 soldiers have died from eating putrid fish at a banquet recently given at the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, to veteran soldiers of the Russian Army who had…

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