The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-28
Insurgents Are Being Driven
From Their StrOnghOlds.
BARRICADES BURNED.
Guerilla Warfare Is Still Being
Carried On.
sniping and Hurting Of Bombs
From Roofs of Houses.

The backbone Of the insurrectlon. IS
broken and the uprising here is rapidly
going to pieces. The revolutionists are
able to keep up only guerilla warfare
but the ease with which they can move
small detaehments from place to place
renders the task of suppressing them
slow and tedious. The Brunnai quar-
ter has. been cleared of the members of
the Drujina as the fighting organization
Of the revolutonists is called They
have transferred their operations to
East Tvskeria consisting principally OF
aniping from the roofs Of houses, occa-
sionally throwing a bomb on advanc-
ting patrols and making off on the ap-
pearance of artillery.
All the troops Of the MOSCOW garrison,
including the former disaffeCted ROSUOI
gTenadiers and the reinfOrcements winch
are employed in crushing the reVOlu-
tiOnists are still insufficient to thor
OughIy occupy the territory won, thus
enabling the revolutionists to slip INTO
vacated territory, as soon as the troops
move on Many of the attacks on pa
trolls are seemingly made out of a pure
spirit of bravadO since they are com
pletely futile from a strategic stand
point. The remnants of the insurrection
now lack cohesion or head.
The city of Moscow bears the pic
turesQue appearance a battleheld-
Ohicers are everywhere seen galloping
through the streets or being driven
about in rapidly moving slelghs accom-
panied by escorts of dragons or COS
sacks The stores were reOpened ana
the inhabitants who h been cooped up
for five days were VenturIng for a
breath Of fresh air.
DemOIishing Barricades.
The troops began operations this
morning at the triumphal arch, bonn
harding and demOlishing an immense
barricade near the car stables of the
Belgian company, which had been built
behind overturned tram cars Ihence
slowly pivoting from the arch ne col
umns swept eastward, clearing all the
streets off TVerskaia and north OF the
boulevard which separated the battle
ground from the center Of the city
Barricades We're not so numerous IN thls
region as was the case during yeSIeI-
days fighting and the troops encoun-
tered less opposition. A correspondent
Of the Associated Press accompanied
one of the columns for an hour during
which time the soldiers or the OFuJlnd
nowhere attempted to hold the barrl-
cades. After firing a few shots they in
variably scattered off
These defenses were taken without
firing a shot The work of destroying
the entanglements and burning the
material from which they were con-
structed was slow Occasionally when
the troops were fired upon from roofs
the houses were bOmbarded, but the oc-
cupants had ample time to escape
The operations of the troops IN the
Brunnai district disclosed many inter-
esting traces OF yesterdays fighting
which brought the walls of a hundred
houses tumbling about the ears of
their defenders. The PrOkOhOrff cot
ton mill, the headquarters of the
Drujina and many other houses for
the distance of a mile between the
boulevard and the triumphal arch
were I'm ruins Every streets tributary
# he UTr-a7-eIraf hN71lavrlF- F-H cf f.
ly barricaded. as many IS seven being
counted within two hundred yards of
a single street. These evidently formed
the first line of defense and the net
work OF streets behind were barricad-
ed at intervals. These barricades were
left standing. the troops having strate-
getically made a circuit to an open
plain northwest of the city which en-
aDied them to take the revolutiOnists
i'm the rear, compelling the evacuation
of the position practically without loss
as the revolutionists were unable to
fight the artillery with revolvers and
they possessed few rifles
YaWning Chasms.
House after house showed yawning
chasms produced by shells. The spirit
shops and cheap lodging houses oc-
Cupied by the student reVOlutfOnists
were the principal sufferers The bar
Ticades thought they could not
be defended against artillery
were well constructed of tele-
graph poles, fences, heavy
doors iron court yard gates and signs
al interlaced with wire. A lumber
yard in the vicinity furnished material
for thirty barTicades. Red flags were
still defiantly floating over some of the
barriers, but throughout the district
the correspondent saw neither Druiin-
lists nor soldiers. Tt was like a desert
ed field over which the tide of battle
had swept.
During the morning the revolution
lists several times attempted to inter
cept conveys of ammunition sent from
the arsenals to the troops whose sup
ply of 200 rounds per man was run
ming low
I'm one case they almost succeeded. af-
ter which the escorts of the conveys
We're doubled
The boldest exploit to the credit of
she revOlutionists was an attack on
tho dinner of the four grenadiers which
was Delng trundled out in the wheeled
camp kitchens used in the Russian
army. A detachment of the Drujina
aided by sympathizers in the neighbor-
hood swoOped down on the corporars
guard forming the escort. The dri-
Vers of the wheeled Kitchens and >Ae
escort made a valiant defense as bull
lets ratified on the brilo~~ and cauldrons
puncturing big soup pot. At that juno
ture a squadron of Dragons galloped
up and drove off the assailants and the
camp kitchens We're rescued but the
grandiers lost their dinner
Daring Raid.
Last night a company of Drujina sol
dlers who are said to be paid 20 cents
day, made a daring incursion into the
heart of the city occupying OkhotnagO
Rida (Hunters row. under the walls of
the Bremlin ard suddenly opened fire
on the artillery and infantry camping
in Theater square. The guard station
ed at the Hotel MetropoIe where Cow
ernor General DOubasOn is quartered.
changed across the square. The regular