Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-30
ATTEMPT OF THE
REDS CRUSHED
REvOLUTI0NARlES WILL NOT
SOON RECOVER
Indications Are That Struggle Of the
Proletariat Is Almost Hopeless.
Peasant Uprising May
Occur in Spring
BY Associated press.

BY Associated Press.
sT. PETERSBURG, Dec. 29.-The
suppression of the insurrection at Mos
COW and the certainty that similar up
risngs elsewhere will be crushed,
marked the collapse of the first at
tempt of the reds to overthrow the
government armies and administer n
defeat from which It is not believed
in government circles the revolution
aries can quickly recover
Now that the smoke of battle Is clear
ing away the utter hopelessness of the
conflict seems to be apparent. The
populace held aloof and not single
military unit actually Joined The reVo- =
Iutionaries l1Ven the general strike
crumbled under their feet by their chal-
lenging and precipitating a conflict be-
fore the proletariat organizations were
prepared. The government secured u
comparatively easy, though ruthless
victory, and it is believed in high OIL
cial circles that the organizations have
been so demoralized and disrupted by
the blow and by the arrest of their most
able leaders that it win he impossible
for them to attempt the coup planned
for the anniversary of Bloody sun
day."
In desperation undoubtedly the revo-
lutionaries will have recourse to acts
of terror which they win spring at
the most unexpected moment.
The country has quieted down and the
hopes that now the election of a douma
is assured, the government can devote
it's time to the suppression of the re-
volt in the Baltic provinces and more
especially to the solutions of the agra
rian question. If means cannot be found
to in some measure satisfy the land
hunger of the peasants before spring
the universal opinion is that the pea
SAINTS everywhere will rise. The landed
proprietors seem to be convinced of
this to such an extent that the land
lords in the neighborhood of the Minsk
are calling their tenants together end
are voluntarily arranging upon terms
satisfactory to the peasants.
Peter Struve, editor of the Osvo-
bojdenie (emancipation), who has again
shifted his position, publishes a ring
ing article this afternoon in which he
admits the defeat of the attempt
aimed at the overthrow of the govern
ment He says the attempt, of course,
was madness and was bound to be eX-
tinguished in blood. Nevertheless, he
alleges, there was a heroic spirit be-
mind it which should terrify the gov
ernment.
Another such victory and the gov
erDmenI Is lOSI says ne.
The report that Lieut.. Mistchenko
has been wounded is not true
The league of leagues has split, one
portion favoring n continuance of the
strike and another the Abandonment
of violent tactics and cooperation in
peaceful preparation for the work of
the douma.
With the evident object of inhaming
sentiment abroad, the revolutionary
agents are putting out a story to the
effect that the government is deliber-
ately plotting a great massacre of the
Jews. These agents display what pur-
ports to be the text of an appeal by
rabbi addressed to the Jews to fight
against the cross. which they declare is
being printed by the ministry of marine
for distribution among the ignorant
classes, with the object of producing a
concerted attack. Investigation fails
to substantiate the charge that the gov
ernment is favoring any such docu-
ment. ttt,.
There was a slight reiapses,on the
bourse today. Imperial fours were
quoted at S01a.