Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1905-12-30
TROOPS CRUSH
MOSCOW REVOLT
Insurgents Making LostStand Against
Artillery Fire Of Soldiers.
THOUSANDS OF CASUALTIES

THOUSANDS OF CASUALTIES
s. Petersburg. Dec. q. - Emperor
Nicholas and Count WHITE received a
report from General D0ubasson. gov
ernor general OK Moscow. saving that
the revolt there had failed. that the
military had the situation in hand. and
that whatever detection may have ex-
listed among the troops had been over
come by the attacks on them with
bombs and rcvolvers % which they
had been subjected from the windows
and roofs OF houses. which had 90 en-
ragged them shat they could hardly be
restrained.
Although rebellion may fare up I'm
modiatoly elsewhere and although
there Is an indication Of an upheavaI
az odessa if the attempt at armed re-
bclli0n in Moscow should De crushed
the leaders OF the reds" VIII receive
q blow from which they cannot quickly
recover.
Last night the correspondent Of the
Associated Press at Moscow tele-
phoned that there seems 20 be no
longer any doubt that the revolution
was collapsing Insurgents stu held
the quadrangle in which the work
mems council was sitting as revolu-
tionary committee. but only because
Governor General Doubsssom was not
yet ready 20 give the coup de grace.
Firing continued Internationally
throughout the day At o'clock auto.
matte guns were being used IN Strast-
ner Square. but the insurgents were
becoming exhausted after their four
DAYS efforts. and the hghunE was ra-
pidly degenorating into guerilla war
fare.
The Insurgents we're defending
themselves with revolvers and bombs
as they were being hunted down from
house 20 house.
The correspondent says that the en-.
tire population Of tho city IS terror
stricken and that after dark the back
streets present q weird and uncanny
appearance. AS he drove 10 the tele-
phone station he saw only a few civil
fans who were sinking along by the
side OF the walls so as 70 avoid the
police and cavalry patrols who Ere
without Challenging. The windows OF
the houses are stuffed with mattresses
and blankets and no lights are show
ing. The police carry rifles with bayo-
nets fixed
The correspondent predicts that the
crushing Of the rebellion is likely 70 be
followed BY the most horrible atrocities
II the Black Hundreds" are let loose
A telephone message Just received
by the Associated Press from Moscow
says the lighting IN the streets contin-
ued throughout the day. The soldiers
are hemming in the main body Of the
insurgents In the quadrilateral me-
the Brest railroad station bounded by
Tyersksi1 street and the Tverskol. Sa-
doVia and Bronnis boulevArds In this
quadrilateral the insurgents have for
uhed every inch OF their lines with
fellsd trees and telegraph poles and
street cars. IN front OF which they have
constructed a network OF entangle-
montS. Artillery IS being used msrci-
leSsly.
The mortuAries Of Moscow are allied
with the dead. the hospitals are unable
10 find room for the wounded, and
many private houses are filed with
wounded persons.
The Bourse Gazette says It is report
ed that General De Dioulin. project OF
police OF st. Petersburg. has been in
formed by telephone that the number
OF dead OF wounded at Moscow num-
Der $4,000. and that when questioned
the general did not deny that such a
report had been received.
Marched In Face Of Death.
Preparations for the struggle were
made on an elaborate scale. Twenty
Eve thousand troops were massed.
machine guns were placed on the high
wallis OF the Kremlin. and even IN the
steeplss OF churches Massive towers
OF the Chinese wall bristlsd with wea-
pons. Troops Of Cossacks clattered
through the streets.
Into this very hell OF death marched
q procession OF rsvolutionists They
carried red flags and chanted those
revolutionary dirges that one day will
be the oirges OF the Russian nation
When this mass OF patriots had reach.
ed point in Red Square where their
position could be swept by the ma
chine guns. and where Cossacks could
charge advantageously, the mailed fist
struck.
Thousands Slaughtered.
The ensuing slaughter was diaboli-
cal. Casualties numbered thousands
Dead men were piled high. Among
these we're many of the czar's fighting
men. for the rsvolutionists had come