Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-12-27
The Government HoIdingIts
Own in Russia,
Everywhere Troops RepeI the
StrIkers---Many Break Away


| st. Petersburg, Dec. 26.-11.55 p M
Emperor Nicholas and Count Witte re-
| ceived tonight report from Gen. Dou-
| bassof. governor general of Moscow,
saying that the revolt there had failed,
that the military had the situation in
hand and that whatever disaffection
may have existed among the troops
has been overcome by attacks on them
with bombs and revolvers. to which
they had been subjected from the win
dows and roofs of houses and which
| had so enraged them that they could
| hardly be restrained.
Although rebellion may flare up i'm
| mediately elsewhere and although
| there already is an indication of an
other upheaval at Odessa. if the at
tempt at armed rebellion in Moscow
should be crushed the leaders Of the
Reds will receive blow from which
they cannot quickly recover.
Count Witte is not so blind as to be
lleVe that the revolution can be stamp
ed out. but with the present demonstra-
ton of the lengths to which the Reds
are willing to go, he has hopes that
the moderates Of all classes will come
to their senses and aid in the counsell-
convocation of the douma, the law gov
erninS the elections to which was pub
lished today.
Among the developments here todav
the most important was the capture of
the leaders of the Fighting Legions.~
which it is believed ends the danger of
an attempt at an armed uprising IN st
Petersburg. This capture, it is UNDER
in, ~
ernmcnt complete information regard
ing revolutionary plans and the places
where arms are concealed as well as
clsciosing the weak spots in the army.
Shortly before 9 o'clock tonight the
correspondent Of The Associated Press
az MOSCOW telephoned that there SEEM
ed to be no longer doubt that the in
surrection was collapsing The insur-
gents still held the quadrangle in which
the workmens' council was sitting as. a
revolutionary committee. but only be-
cause Gov Gen. Doubassoff was not
yet ready to give the coup de grace.
FIRING continued intermttently through
OUT the DAY. At O'Clock automatic guns
were being used in Strastner square, but
the insurgents We're becoming exhausted
after their four days efforts and the
fighting was rapidly degenerating into
guerilla warfare
The insurgents were defending Them
selves with revolvers and bombs as thew
were being hunted down from house to
house.
The correspondent says that the en-
tire populat ton of the city il terror
stricken and that after dark the back
streets present a weird and uncanny an
pearance. AS he drove to the telephone
station he saw only n few civilians who
were Sinking along by the side of the
walls so as to avoid the police and cav
airy patrols. who fire without challeng-
ing. The windows of the houses are stufr-
ed with mattresses and blankets and no
light in shown. The police carry rifles
with bayoncts fixed
Gen. Doubassoff is enforcing the most
rigid martial law, and no person Is allow
ed on the streets after 9 o'clock at night.
About one-third of the workmen have
left the city and are travelling on foot to
the villages. some Of which are hundreds
Of mile distant
Among the lower classes which do not
with the desire to overthrow
the Emperor, the feeling is becoming in
tense and in many cases strikers have
been beaten to death.
The correspondent predicts that the
crushing of the rebellion Is likely to be
followed by the most horrible atrocities
If the BLACK Hundred" are let loose
Gov. Gen. Doubassoff. unknown to the
public. is directing matters from his head
quarters in the Metropolitan hotel, which
Is barricaded and defended by machine
guns.
The concentration Of the troops in the
rity to fight the insurgents allowed the
strikers and revolutionaries a free hand
n neighboring towns like Perovo and
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