Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-28
RESEMBLES BATTLEFIELD.
Number Of Troops is Not Stuff.
cient TO Occupy and Hold
The Territory Won.
BarrIcadcs Generally Carried Without
Firing n observation-disclosures Attack
Fourth Grencdicrs' Dinner Train.

MOSCOW, wednesday, DeC' 10, w. VI"
cia st. Petersburg. Dec. 2s.-The back
bone Of the instruction Is broken and
the uprising here Is rapidly going to
pieces. The revolutionists are able to
keep up only a guerilla warfare. but
the ease with which they can move
small detachments from place TO place
renders the task of suppressing them
slow and tedious The Bruannaya
quarter has been cleared OF the mem
bers OF the "drujina' as the fighting or
ganIzation of the reyolutionists IL
called. They have transferred their
operations TO east Tverskla, consisting
OF sniping from the roofs OF houses,
occasionally throwing a bomb on adj
yancing patrols and making off on the
appearance of artillery. All the troops
OF the Moscow garrison. including the
former disaffected Rostoff grenediers
and the renforcements which are em-
ployed In crushing the revolutionists
are. still insufficient to thoroughly oc-
cupy the territory won, thus enabling
the revolutionists to slip into vacated
territory. 80 soon M the troops move
on. Many of the attacks on patrols are
seemingly made out OF a pure spirit of
bravado. since they are completely flu
tile from strategic standpoint The
remnants Of the insurrection now lack
cohesion and a head.
LIKE A BATTLEFIELD.
The city of Moscow bears the pie
turesque appearance of battlefield.
officers are everywhere seen galloping
through the streets or being driven
about In rapidly moving sleighs accom-
panied by escorts of dragons or Cos.
sacks. The stores We're re-opened and
the inhabitants who had been cooped
up for five days were venturing out for
breath Of fresh air.
The troops begun operations this
morning at the triumphal arch. bonn
harding and demolishing an immense
barrcade near the car stables OF the
Belgian company which had been built
behind overturned tram cars. The COLI
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 were not so numerous in
this region az was the case during yes
,erdays lighting and the troops en-
countered less opposition. A CORE
spondent of the Associated Press ac-
companies one OF the columns for an
hour during which time the soldiers of
the "druJlna" nowhere attempted to
hold the barricades After firing a few
shots they invariably scampered off.
CAPTURING BARRICADEs.
Some times the artillery fired at a
barricade but unusually the defenses
were taken without firing a shot.
The work OF destroying the entangle-
ments and burning the material from
which they were constructed was slow.
Occasionally whea the troops were fir
ed upon from roofs the houses were
bambarded. but the occupants had am
pie time to escape,
The operations of the troops In the
Brunnala district disclosed many inter-
esting traces of yesterdays fighting
which brought the walls of hundred
houses tumbling about the ears of
their defenders. The Prokhorff cotton
mill. the headquarters of the "drujina,"
and many other houses for the distance
OF mile between the boulevard and
the Triumphal arch were in ruins. Ev-
cry street tributary Of the Tverskaia
boulevard was stoutly barrlcaded, as
many as seven being counted within
200 yards OF a single street. These ev-
identity formed the first line of defense,
harrcaded at intervals. These barri-
cades We're left standing, the troops
having strategically made circuit to
an open plain northwest OF the city,
which enabled them to take the revolu-
tionist5 In the rear, compelling the
evacuation OF the position practically
without loss as the revolutionsts were
unable 10 fight the artillery with revolt
vers and they possessed few rifles.
House after house showed yawnlng
chasms. The spirit shops and cheap
lodging houses occupied by the stu
dent revolutlonists were the principal
sufferers. The barricades, though they
could not be defended against artll-
lery. were well constructed OF poes,
Fences, heavy doors. iron court yard
gates and signs all interlaced with
wire.
A lumber yard In the vicinity offered
material for 30 barbados. Red flags
were still defanty floating over some
Of the barriers, but throughout the dis
trlct the correspondent saw neither
"drujinists," nor soldiers. II was like
a. deserted field, over which the tide
OF battle had swept.
During the morning the revolutIonlsts
several times attempted TO intercept
conveys OF ammunition sent from the
arsenal TO the troops whose supply OF
200 rounds per man was running low.
In one case they almost succeeded af-
ter which the escorts of the conveys
were doubled.
A BOLD EXPLOIT
The boldest exploit to the credit OF
the revolutionists was an attack on the
dinner OF the Fourth grenadiers, which
was being thrundled to In the wheeled
camp kitchens used In the Russian
army A detachment Of the 'druji-
ma" aided by symuathizers IN the
neighborhood .swooped down on the cor
poraIs' guards. forming the escort The
drivers OF the wheeled kitchens and the
escort made valiant defense ms oul'
let's ratified on the boilers and cauld-
rons puncturing big soup pot, AZ
that juncture squadron OF dragoons
galloped up and drove off the assailants
and the camp Kitchens were rescued,
but the srenadiers lost their dinner.
A DARING INCLUSION.
Last night company Of "drujina
soldiers, who are said 10 be paid ~