Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-12-25

| OF. petersburg, Dec. 24.-S.30 p. NJ
| with Moscow'S baptism of blood the
reVolutionaries made good their threat
to transform the strike into an armed
rebellion and the next As hours should
determine whether they can marshal
sufficient strength to plunge the coun-
| try into all actual state of civil war and
| seriously threaten the immediate down.
| fall Of the government.
| The government processes confidence
| that the whole attempt will fail owing
| to the Woeful inSufiiciency of arms in
| possession of the proletariat and by
reason of the loyalty of the army as Il
whole, but its calculations might again
be ruicly upset. \ few arsenals might
| be seized to furnish arms or the open
support of few regiments might start
| Il landslide in the army. Certainly the
ShreWdcSt Of the revolutionary lead
crS fully appreciate that the issue must
be decided by the attitude of the army
which is yet to cast the die. The in
StructionS have gone forth that risings
must occur everywhere in order to
| ;cst the troops and if foothold can be
secured it is the intention of the rev.
olulonarleS to set up provisional
government and proclaim a republic.
Thus far reports from Moscow do not
clear up the vital point as to whether
any Of the troops there actually refused
to obey commands although there are
persiStant rumorS that they did. ReVo-
lutionary leaders here claim to have
continuation of "a report that a grena-
der brigade and some Cossacks mutt
MED and are now locked up in their
barracks.
While the military succeeded every
where in driving the insurgents from
their barbados in Moscow Saturday
night, the defeat evidently was not a
decisive one, as barrcades were again
thrown up III dozens of places this
morning and fighting resulted before
II o'clock.
The Associated Press understands
that orders have been issued for an up-
rising here, but the governments meas
ureS seemingly render this impossible.
No meetings, public or private, are al
lowed, which makes an assembly OF
more than five persons in a private.
lodging illegal. The prisons and jails are
filled with leaders of the revolution
aries and agitators Two caches of arms
have been seized and an entire organiz-
aticn, consisting OF 600 "crujina," as the
student militia is called, has been cap
tured.
Rumors were purposely circulated
that conflict would be inauSurated at
a demonstration of workmen in the
Nevsky Prospect this afternoon, but
they proved to be unfOunded. The city,
in fact, was unnaturally calm on the
surface and a stranger dropping down
the Nevsky Prospect this afternoon
would have seen no evidence of fer
ment. 1t was bright. crisp winter day
and smart sleighs and equipages of the
aristocracy with their occupants
cloaked in sableS and other rich furs
We're out in force. Only the sullen faces
of the crowds of strikers on the side
walks and the heavy horse and foot |
patrols on every block looked ominous.
If the plans of the revOlutionaries to
produce an uprising in st. Petersburg
fail. as it is believed they will, an at
tempt certainly will be made to terror |
ize the government by guerilla warfare, |
in which bombs will play the chief |
role. The government having embarked |
in a war against the "reds' it is diff |