New-York tribune., 1905-12-27

nhones that the insurgents no longer have
charre ami that they are making last stahd.
He predicts that there will be further heavy
fighting.
All the troops, he said. are now fighting on the
side of the government
Police and troops in st. Petersburg To-Day
surrounded and captured all the members OF
the fighting revolutionary organization whie
they were discussing plans for an armed uprls-
ing as we'll as large quantities of arms and
bombs 1t is understood that result of these
captures the government has obtained extremely
important information concerning the connec-
tions formed by the revolutionary leaders with
the army.
A man named Schoolman was at the head of
the executive committee. which numbered forty
seven members.
The government is confident that these cap
lures practically put an end for the present to
any attempt to repeat in ST. Petersburg the up
rising at Moscow.
Emperor Nicholas and Count Witte received
tonight report from General Doubassof,
Governor General of Moscow, saying that the
revolt there had failed. that the military had
the situation in hand and that whatever de
fection may have existed among the troops had
been overcome by attacks on them with bombs
and revolvers from the windows and roofs of
houses These attacks had enraged them
that they could hardly be restrained.
Although rebellion may flare up Immediately
elsewhere, and although there already is an in
dication of another upheaval at Odessa. if the
attempt at armed rebellion in Moscow should
be crushed the leaders of the Reds will receive
a blow from which they cannot quickly re-
cover
Count Witte is not so blind as to believe that
the revolution be stamped out, hut with the
present demonstration of the lengths 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 the establishment of order.
Among the developments here to-day the most
important was the capture of the leaders of the
Fighting Legions," which, it is believed, ends
the danger of an attempt at an armed uprising
in St Petersburg.
Shortly before o O'Clock tonight the CORE
telephoned that there seemed to he no longer
doubt that the insurrection was colapslng. The
insurgents still held the quadrangle in which
the Workmens Council was sitting as a revo-
lutionary committee but only because Cover
Eor General Doubassoff was not yet ready to
give the finishing blow.
Firing continued intermittentIy throughout
the day At o'clock automatic guns were be-
ing used in Strastner Square, but the insurgents
were becoming exhausted after their four days
efforts. and the fighting was rapidly degener-
ating into guerilla warfare The insurgents de
as they were hunted down from house to
house.
The correspondent says that the entire popu-
lation of the city Is terrorstricken and that
after dark the back streets present weird ap-
pearance As he drove to the telephone sta
ton 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 stuffed with
ma ttresses and blankets and light is show
ing. 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 o'clock at night.
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.
Among the lower classes. which do not sym
patLize with the desire TO overthrow the En-
peror, the feeling is becoming intense, and in
many cases strikers have been beaten to death.
The correspondent predicts that the crushing
of the rebellion is likely TO be followed by the
most horrible atrocities if the BLACK Hun
dreds" are let loose.
Governor General Doubassoff unknown TO
tho public. is directing matters from his head
ouarters in the Metropolitan Hotel, which is
barricaded and defended by machine guns.
The concentration of the troops in the city TO
fight the insurgents allowed the strikers and
revolutionaries free hand i'll neighboring in
dustrial towns like Perovo and Lubertzi. In
tho former place three hundred armed men
we're sent TO reinforce the insurgents and at
Lubertzi the situation became SO threatening
that Mr. Purdy. viee-president of the New
York Airbrake Company which has works in
that town sent an urgent message TO the Gov
ernor General to-day through the American
consul. appealing for the protection of the prop
erty and of the one hundred Americans who
are employed there
General Doubassoff promptly dispatched