The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-22
Russia is the Scene Of
 Battle.
THE REVOLT AT TUKUM
People Fire on Funeral Pro.
 ceSSiOn from Windows.
Troops Surround Town, and It Is Re- ported by Refugees, Kill About 400 of the Revo-
 lutiOnists.

Riga, Russia, Dec. 21.-Refugee land owners are arriving here. It is re- ported that there was bloodshed It Talsen yesterday. Revolutionary pea sants entrenched themselves in the.r houses, from the windows of which they fired on the patrolling soldiers i' is estimated that forty infantrymer and cavaIrymen were killed or wouna ed.
 Additional details of the revolt a' Tukum, Cortland. have been received The revolt began December Il whef' the municipality requested Captair von Mueller who was stationed ther. with fifty infantry and forty dragoons to withdraw the military patrols from the streets because the inhabitants wished to abolish a civilian guard The captain agreed to do so but forgot to inform his soldiers who, = resum T. ing guard duty, were encountered by armed agitators. The leader of the latter shouted that they had received won Mueller's permission to carry arms but the soldiers fired on the yagitators and a fight ensued In which hfteen per sons were killed.
 On December B the soldiers buried their comrades but the people fired on the funeral procession from the win dows of their houses. More drS goons arrived and another fight occurred. The soldiers finally were compelled to re- tire with ten wounded. leaving Tukun in the hands of 5000 armed revolu- tionaries. The revolutionaries then set fire to the building in which the off, cers and forty dragons were housed. The officers and men tried to escape but were prevented by entanglements and were fired on by the revolution aries from the windows of houses, re- suiting in. the killing of Captain won Mueller and twenty-four dragons and the wounding of an officer and thirteen revolutionaries then frightfully rnutil- Rted the bodies of the dead soldiers.
 Next day five companies of reinforce naepts with three guns arrived but the revoiutionaries compelled them to retire. by a fusilade from the win- lows.
 General Chorounchenko then order ed the artillery to lombard the town. Many of the inhabitants who had not learned of the arrival of reinforce ments thought that terrorists were throwing bombs and fled in panic in all directions. The troops surround ing the town fired on the people, kill ing. according to refugees. four hun dred of them. The bloodshed lasted from eight o'clock in the evening until nine o'clock in the morning when tho townsmen surredered. .tr
 The leaders Of the revolutionaries, however, escaped. Two-thirds of the inhabitants fled the town.
 Similar occurrences are reported from Goldingen and Talben, to which place endorsements have been sent. No details of these disturbances are yet available.
 Meanwhile peasants continue to de- vastate the estates of the Baltic no- bility and total of fifty. estates are reported to have been burned down.
 The Associated Press today inter viewed the leader of the socialist par ty, Lapa Janson who is the editor of a Lettish revolutionary organ. He said:
 Our struggle is purely political and economical We will not rest until autocracy and feudalism in the Baltic provinces have been finally extirpated. All the military and other officers in the Baltic provinces are ither Russian or German and not single one is a Lett Since 1901 the Lettish democracy has secretly worked to organize the coun- try people. The strength of the pea sants and workmen's organizations has been gradually increased and when the Emperor's manifesto making con sessions to the peasants was publish ed, there were able to partly shake off the long standing yoke of despot- ism of the Baltic nobility. The con. sessions. however, were insufficient"