The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-12-26
ROAR OF CANNON
IS HEARD AGAIN
Moscow RevoIuti0nists Despcr-
ately Defend Barricades
PROVISIONS ARE SCARCE
UPON THOUSANDS
KILLED AND WOUNDED IN
TERRIBLE BATTLE Be
TWEEN FORCES.


London, Dec. 2G.-The correspond
ent Of the Telegraph at st. Petersburg
in dispatch dater Gas p. m, Dec 25th,
says;
"At an early hour this morning
the casualties at Moscow were esti-
mated at 5000 killed and fourteen
thousand wounded, with fighting still
proceeding.
THE inhabitants of Moscow have
been forbidden 10 leave their dwell
ings after seven in the evening.
It is impossible TO move about the
city in consequence of the frequency
Of stray bullets. Many innocent per
sons have been accidentally killed
"A scarcity Of provisions is threat
ened'
The same CORE pondent telegraph
ing at 1926 p. m, says
your Moscow spondent's ter
agrams have not been accepted be.
cause all private messages were re-
fused this afternoon.
"1t is learned, however. that can
non firing IS now proceeding in varl-
Gus pat. Of the city wehere tonight,
very near the railroad stations, barri-
cades erected by the revolutionaries
are being desperately defended
The Kursk Terminus at Moscow is
beng pnlaged and many wagons laden
with provisions are being looted.
THE emperor is engaged daily in
reviewing at TsarkoeSelo the regi-
nents Of the ST. Petersburg district.
The spirit OF the troops IS decidedly
lsyal.
From fragnentary accounts re-
oeived from Moscow | gather that
civil war has brought no decisive ac.
ron but only d thickenng Of the blood
cloud, aud the intensifying of horrors
and an Increase of the prevailing Bit
terness.
The driving force behind both
re cps and rebels is no longer that Of
enthusiasm or any human impulse. Il
is the force of superhuman hate, and
hence deeds reported are not acts Of
patriots. soldiers or otherwise, but The
enormties of madmen.
IT is imposs. BILE to understand how
any emotion, even OF the extremes
of despair or hate, can impar ueh
foolhardy courage as some Of the
rebels display.
For every barricade destroyed Sun
lay. two or three appeared in other
places. Orders were given by the rev
olu,ionists to shoot only when there
was good hope Cf bringing a man
down, but otherwise t. tire out TIC
trooDs until they lost patience.
In the meantime in their houses
the bulk of the population covers in
the inmost recess es, kitchens and eel
lars, stricken with fear and trembling
1t every boom of cannon cr explosion
of bomb.
THE most surprising thing is the
loyalty of the troops which nobody
here anticipated
Talking with an intelligent group OF
St Petersburg reyolutionists. | was in
| formed that while they were stalking
everything upon the issue and that
| failure would set back their cause FL
several year- They said they were
levoting their efforts to shaking tho
foundations of Russian finance, in ful
confidence that once the existing
regime was overthrown they could az
quickly build up another and that for
eign nations would he as ready to ad
vance money 10 democratic republi,
as t. autocracy. They cmphaticalb
den ed that they were melting The
pea antry to commis Agrarian our
RACES, DECLARING that these outrage.
were the work Of socialists. but they
did n,t deny their advocacy Of the dig
tribution Of crown lands among peas
ants.
In conclusion. they declared thar in
he event Of failure of their cause
they would have recourage 70 terror
ism. choosing their victims from al
classes of society"