The news & observer., 1905-12-30
STRIKING FEEBLE
BIO WSAT MOSCOW
Workman's Council Seek
ing Terms for Strikers.
THE REVOLT SPREADS
For the First Time Provinces East Of
Moscow in The Heart OF Great
Russia Flare into Insurrection.
Fighting Begins at
Riga.
CBy the Associated Press }


St Petersburg. Dec. 29.-The cor
respondent of the Associated Press at
Moscow telegraphs that the scattered
revolutionists there are only able to
keep up a feeble show of resistance
to the troops, and the Workmens S
Council, realizing that the revolt is
crushed, is negotiating terms for the
strikers who part:ciL ated in the upris-
ing with the view of calling off the
strikers on Monday. Nevertheless the
radical papers of st. Petersburg con-
tinue to infiame their readers with
stories of desperate fighting in the
streets of Moscow. representing the
revolutionists as being in complete
possession of ten square miles of the
city, which the troops with all their
authority and machine guns are un-
able TO pierce. These papers print
columns of descriptive matter rep
resenting the revolutionists fighting va
liantly behind barricades, standing on
heaps of corpses of their comrades
For the first time the provinces
eaet Of Moscow. in the heart of Great
Russia, are affected. At Zlatoust. q
town in the government of Oofa,
where Il large government arms fac
tory IS situated, the workmen seem
10 be in complete possession of the
town. They have seized the works
hoisted the red flag. have declared a
republic, and all the authorities have
been made captives and are threat
ened with instant death if troops are
sent 10 ZlatOuSt. In addition the
workmen have organized themselves
into q small army and dali, parade
the streets. headed by band OF mu-
sic, playing the Marseillais.
Fighting ut Samora.
AT Samora, near Mimi, Novgorod
also large manufacturing town, 20,-
600 Workmen rose and attempted to
march on Nizhni Novgorod. but were
met by troop with artillery and were
routed with the loss of several score
of men. Eventually the Workmen
were driven back to Samora where
they erected barricades which the ar
tilery have been firing ct for two
days. The workmen used bombs
freely at Samora which is now sep
arated from Mimi Novgorod but a
rising is expected at the latter place
which has also about $1,000 inhabi-
t2nts.
At Veronezh. South Russia, the
workmen decided in favor of an
armed revolution but the authorities
succeeded in arresting eleven of the
ring leaders. whereupon the revoiu-
tionists halted three train loads OF
sailors of the reserve who were on
their way to the Far East. The lat
ter responded to the appeals of the
workmen, promptly Joined them,
marched into the town and aided in
the liberation of the prisoners.
The government has intercepted
telegrams showing that lthe Social
Democrats and Workmen's Councils
have arranged for armed uprisings
at Kieff Kazan and Krasnoyarsk and
for a general insurrection in Poland
which will be proclaimed December
81 At Kieff and KaZan the author
tiles believe the movement has been
nipped in the bud by the arrest of the
ring leaders and the seizure of arms.
At the former place one of the lead
ers was a porter in the Governor
Generals house.
At Riga. the proclamation of gen
eral strike was accompanied by an
open effort on the part of the fighting
organization to seize the city. Barr1-
cades sprang up in all the streets as
if by magic and fighting between the
revolutionists and the gendarmes,
troops and police has begun.