The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-12-29
SOLDIERS OF TIE CAR DEFEAT
INSURGENTS AT MOSCOW AT
TER HARD FIGHTING.
THOUSANDS FELL IN BATTLE
NUMBER OF KILLED AND WOUND
ED ESTIMATED AT FIFTEEN
THOUSAND PERSONS.


Nicholas and Count White received at
night report from General Doubassoff,
governor general of Moscow, saying
that the revolt there had failed, that
the military had the situation in hand,
and that whatever detection may have
existed among the troops had been
overcome by attacks on them with
bombs and revolvers to which they
had been subjected from the windows
and roofs of houses and which had so
enraged them that they could hardly
be restrained.
Although rebellion may flare up i'm
mediately elsewhere and although
there already is an indication of an
other upheaval at Odessa, If the at
tempt at armed rebellion in Moscow
should be crushed the leaders of the
"reds" will receive blow from which
they cannot quickly recover.
Count Witte is not so blind as to
believe that the revolution can be
stamped out at once, but with the pres
ent demonstration of the length to
which the "reds" are willing to go he
has hopes that the moderates of all
classes will come to their senses and
aid in counselling of order and in ac-
celebrating the convention of the dou-
ma, the law governing the elections to
which was published during the day
Among the developments here the
most important was the capture of the
leaders of the fighting legfons,"
which it is believed ends the danger of
an attempt at an armed uprising in st.
Petersburg. This capture, it Is under
stood, places in the hands of the gov
eminent complete information regard
ing revolutionary plans and the places
where arms are concealed, as well as
disclosing the weak spots in the army.
Instruction Collapsing.
Shortly before o'clock at night the
correspondent of the Associated Press
at Moscow telephoned that there
seemed to be no longer doubt that the
insurrection was collapsing. The in
surgents still held the quadrangle in
which the workmens council was sit
ting as a revolutionary committee but
only because Governor General Dou-
bassoff was not yet ready to give the
coup de grace.
Firing continued intermittenly all
through 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 fighting was
rapidly degenerating into guerrilla
warfare.
The insurgents were defending
| themselves with revolvers and bombs
as they were being hunted down from
house to house.
The correspondent says that the en-
tire population of the city is terror
stricken, and that after dark the back
streets present weird and uncanny
appearance. AS he drove to the tele-
phone station he saw only few
civilians who were Sinking along by
the side of the walls SO as to avoid the
police and cavalry patrols who fire
without challenging.
! The windows Of the houses are
and no light is showing. The police
carry rifles with bayonets fixed.
General Doubassoff is enforcing the
most rigid martial law, and no person
is allowed on the streets after 9
o'clock at night.
Strikers Beaten to Death.
| Among the lower classes, which do
not sympathize with the desire to
overthrow the emperor, the feeling Is
becoming intense and in many cases
strikers have been beaten to death.
About one-third Of the workmen
have left the city and-are travelling on
foot to the villages, some of which are
hundreds Of miles distant
The CORRESPONDENT predicts that the
crushing Of the rebellion is likely to be
followed by the most horrible atroci-
ties If the BLACK Hundreds" are let
loose.
Governor General Doubassoff, un-
known to the public, is directing mat
tiers from his headquarters In the
Metropolitan hotel, which Is barri.
caded and defended by machine guns.
The concentration Of the troops in
the city to fight the insurgents allowed
the strikers and revolutionaries free
hand in neighboring Industrial towns
like Perovo and Lubertd.
In the former place 800 armed men
were semitic reinforce the insurgents
and at Lubertzi the situation became
so threatening that Mr.. Purdy, vice
president of the New York Air Brake
company, the works of which In that
town are valued at S1,000,000, sent an
urgent message to the governor gen.
eral through the American consul ap-
pealing for the protection of the prop
erty and of the 100 Americans who are
employed there.
| General Doubassoff promptly des-
patched squadron of dragons and
this fact is considered as the best
proof that he is confident he has the
situation In hand.
| The weather is intensely cold and
a foot of snow has fallen in the past
forty-eight hours.
Strike Will Probably Collapse.
London, Dec. 27.-A dispatch to a
news agency from Odessa says that
the general strike there Is only partial