Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1905 — REDS AT MOSCOW HAVE SUCCUMBED [ARTICLE]

REDS AT MOSCOW HAVE SUCCUMBED

Heel of the Military on Their Necks and Anarchy , Crushed. STREETS OF MOSCOW RUN RED Women Fight the Soldiers from Behind Barricades in ths Streets. Bloodshed Kept Up Until the Slain Now Number 5,000. WOUNDED ESTIMATED AT 14,000 Troops Seem To Be Faithful to the Czar—No Authentic Report ot Disloyalty—St. Petersburg Quiet. St Petersburg, Dec, 27. Emperor Nicholas and Count de Witte received last night a report from General Doubassoff, governor general of Moscow, saying that the revolt there had failed. St Petersburg. Dec. 27. The revolt at Moscow has practically been crushed. A corresi>ondent of the Associated Press telephoned at 7 p, m. yesterday that-the Insurgents no longer have a chance and that they are making a last stand. He predicts that there will be no further heavy fighting. All the troops, he says, are now fighting on the side of the government London, Dec. 25. —Accounts of urday’s bloodshed at Moscow are appalling. Women anarchists stood behind the barricades, taking care of the wounded, and in many instances taking the places of fallen rebels. Fighting went on all over the city. The rebels used bombs, of which they had a large supply, and many soldiers were killed or wounded with them. It is believed that the death roll will reach thousands. Fighting on Sunday.

London. Dec. 25.—Following is a dispatch from Moscow giving an account of the fighting in the streets on Sunday: •‘Artillery, rifle and revolver firing continued throughout the day, but the noise of the battle has now somewhat abated. The guns have been bombarding one barricade after another. the cannonade being followed by charges by the dragoons, who set fire to the debris. The area of the fighting today was more extended, and included Trabnois square, Sadovia, Karetnaia and many other streets. The revolutionaries apiiarently have not in the least lost heart, notwithstanding Saturday’s heavy casualties. It is now known that 500 is a moderate estimate of the losses, and many more persons fell today. Five Thousand Killed. London, Dec. 25.—The correspondent of The Daily Telegraph at St. Petersburg, in a dispatch, dated at 6:45 p. m., Dec. 25, says: “At an early hour this morning the casualties at Moscow were estimated at 5,000 killed and 14,000 wounded, with the fighting still proceeding. The inhabitants of Moscow have been forbidden to leave their dwellings after 7 o’clock in the evening. It is impossible to move about the city, in consequence of the frequency of stray bullets. Many innocent persons have been accidentally killed. A scarcity of provisions is threatened.” The same correspondent, telegraphing at 10:3.8 p. m.. says: “Your Moscow correspondent’s telegrams have not been accepted because all private messages were refused this afternoon. It is learned, however, that cannon firing is now proceeding in various parts of the city where tonight, very near the railroad stations, the barricades erected by the revolutionaries are being desperately defended. The Kursk terminus at Moscow is being pillaged and many wagons laden with provisions are being looted. ALL DEPENDS ON THE ARMY Anarchists Order Uprisings Everywhere to Test Its Fidelity. London, Dec. 25.—Dispatches from St. Petersburg, dated Dec. 24, 8:30 p. m., say; “With Moscow’s baptism of blood the revolutionaries made good their threat to transform the strike into armed rebellion, and the next for-ty-eight hours should determine whether they can marshal suflicietit strength to plunge the country into an actual state of civil war and seriously threaten the immediate downfall of the government. The government professes confidence that the whole attempt will fall, owing to the woeful insufficiency of arms in possession of the proletariat, and by reason of the loyalty of the army as a whole. “Instructions have gone forth from the revolutionists that risings must occur everywhere, in order to test the tropps, and if a foothold can lie secured it is the intention of the revolutionaries to set up a provisional government and proclaim a republic. Thus far reports from Moscow do not clear up the vital gplnt as to whether

any of the troops there actually refused to obey commands, although there are persistent rumors that they did. Revolutionary leaders here claim to have confirmation of a report that a grenadier brigade and some Cossacks mutinied, and are now locked up In their barracks.” “The Associated Press understands that orders have been Issued for an uprising here, but the government’s measures seemingly render this impossible. No meetings, public or private, are allowed, which makes an assembly of more than five persons in a private lodging illegal. The prisons and jails are filled* with leaders of the revolutionaries and agitators. Two caches of arms have been seized, and an entire organization consisting of 300 “crujina,” as the student militia is called, has been captured. BEGUN BY THE ANARCHISTS Open on the Troops After Thinking It Over an Hour. London, Dec. 25.—The Daily Telegraph’s St. Petersburg correspondent, describing the fight at Moscow, under date of Dec. 24, says: “The first shots were fired by the revolutionaries on the troops outside Fidler’s school, which was surrounded. The revolutionaries had been given one hour in which to surrender. Fifty-five minutes had passed, and the commander of the troops was about to give the order to fire, when a volley came from the house, Several soldiers were killed or wounded. The troops immediately replied. “Soon a white handkerchief , was waved from a window. The troops entered, but were greeted with rifle fire, and they retired and again bombarded the house. Shortly afterwards a w’hite flag was again waved and the surrender of the revolutionaries was completed.” The correspondent also describes the fighting in other sections of the city, resulting in every case in the defeat of the revolutionaries. “The desperate courage of the mob,” the corresi>ondent says, “w’as marvelous. Units of threes, tens and hundreds would sally forth, be driven back and rally again against the enormous odds, eager to accomplish the impossible. Early in the evening the hospitals were filled and private dwelling houses were crowded with the wounded. The principal thoroughfare, the Everskaia, looks like a street in a city captured by a foreign foe. Bivouac fires burn In the streets and rifles are stacked on the pavement. “During all this needless effusion of blood, in old Moscow’ the people were shopping, visiting and otherwise carrying on the ordinary occupations as if nothing in particular was going on.”

FIGHTING WAS BUTCHERY Rebels Mowed Down in the Streets— Strike at, Warsaw Ends. St. Petersburg, Dec. 26. Direct telegraphic communication with Moscow was severed Sunday night, but the government succeeded in restoring communication by a roundaliout route. All reports agree that the fighting Sunday, which continued until midnight assumed the nature of a butchery by the machine guns of the artillery, grape and canister being employed mercilessly against the illarmed insurgents. Atrocious tales are told of the Cossacks, who, plied with vodka until drunk, tired down the streets, sometimes charging with lances. The insurgents displayed great stubbornness In holding barricades, even advancing in a mass to the slaughter. Where bombs were thrown from windows the artillery was summoned and battered the houses to pieces. The plan of the insurgents, it is stated, is to hold 1 the outskirts and gradually enclose the troops in the center of the city. Leaders announce that an army of 30,000 is concentrated at Orechoffsueff, northeast of Moscow, and will soon be ready to march to the insurgents’ assistance. The latest report is that lioth sides were exhausted at midnight, when firing practically ceased. The streets were in absolute darkness, save for searchlights in the towers and bivouacs behind barricades. Preparing ft>r Trouble in Poland. Warsaw, Dec. 27.—The street railroad employes struck last night and the employes of the steam railroads are expected to follow suit. The revolutionists are threatening an armed insurrection similar to that at Moscow. The military authorities are making every preparation, and have ordered the entire garrison to tie ready for any emegency. The authorities have arrested many members of the trades unions and a number of revolutionists. »/

Situation at Odessa. Odessa, Dec. 28.—At tbe moment of sending this dispatch the revolutionary party is endeavoring to close the banks. Fresh strikes are declared daily and a general strike is exjtected every moment. Train service is cut off beyond Zhmerinka. St. Petersburg, end Moscow. Tbe frontiers are isolated. Tbe exodus from Odessa continues. Steamers leaving here are full of passengers. Most of tbe families of the foreign residents have already left.