The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-12-30
STILL FIGHTING
AT MOSCOW
Women Join in the Fight Against Cars
Forces Soldiers Worn Out by
Constant Attacks

Constant
Moscow, Dec. 2S.-The fighting
among the soldiers and revolutionists
still continues. The rebels have di-
vided their forces into three sections.
Many women joined the revolutions
ries and fought with exceptional fe-
rocity.
A youth disguised as Red Cross
worker made an unsuccessful attempt
on the life of the governor general.
Twenty thousand rebels now hold
the city and are constructing barri-
cades as we'll as repairing the broken
telephone wires. They threaten to
turn the churches into forts and defy
the artillery fire.
The cars ukase of Tuesday eve-
ming extending the franchise has only
served to whet the ardor of the revo-
lutionaries, who declare that each
concession made by the government
only brings nearer the goal for which
they are aiming.
The fighting extends within an area
of eight miles in the city, while out
side of this space pitched battles be-
tween savage bands of loyalist soldiers
and rebels are being fought.
Muscular women and servant girls
are saving down the telegraph poles
and overturning the tram cars. The
rebel tactics are becoming a sort Of
guerilla warfare.
The soldiers are completely worn
out by their labors of the past few
days and many of them are in state
of semi owing to lack
of sleep.
It is reported that the troops are
wavering and that one-third of the
garrison is confined in barracks as a
result of the men protesting against
shooting at the revolutionaries.
A dispatch from Enbloc states that
q mob of rebels, maddened at the re-
fusal of the army to join them,
slaughtered number of soldiers held
as prisoners.
Moscow, Dec. 26.-It is estimated
at this hour that the casualties during
Mondays fighting will reach 5000
killed and IA 900 wounded.
throughout the city and hardly a
building remains that is not bullet
SCARED or marked by shells.
Horrors such as eclipse anything
ever known during the Paris reign Of
terror, are being enacted in every
quarter of the city.
A few hours ago a revolutionary
government was again proclaimed and
a proclamation scattered broadcast
calling upon all citizens to rally
around the revolutionary command
and compel the soldiers to retire from
the city.
DAYS Of Commune Repeated.
The result was electrical. Thousands
of persons who heretofore remained in
their homes focked to the places Of
rendezvous and demanded that they be
supplied with arms and ammunition
for life.
The days Of the commune simply
are intensified in these early years Of
the twentieth century, and now it
seems certain the troops will be una
BILE to quell the rioting.
During the last five hours there have
been 1000 buildings destroyed by fire.
They were mostly structures occupied
or owned by loyalists and the fires
have been set by the revolutionary
party, who kept the firemen from in
terfering.
Shortly after sunset last night q de-
tachment of insurgents swarmed down
on the railway storehouse in which
the troops were. Cossacks were sta
toned there to guard the structure,
but most of them were shot down or
stabbed by the frenzied revolutionists,
who drove the guards from the, scene
and carried away everything porta-
BILE within the building.
The murder" of the revolutionists
who were ambushed beside the walls
of the government ammunition fac
tories early on Monday morning has
wrought the anti-monarchica1 resi-
dents to such a pitch that they do not
care what happens to them.
Bombs are being used to an extent
not heretofore dreamed Of.
Men carrying explosives Of great
power approach the ranks Of the sol
diers and throw their missiles right
in the faces of officers and men. The
men throw up their arms and die,
their bodies pierced by many -shots,
but happy in the hope that they have
killed some of those responsible for
the murder of their comrades.
ST. Petersburg, Dec. %. Commu-
nication with Moscow was interrupted
just before midnight, and it appears,
according to the officials of the tele-
graph companies, that the wire either
has been cut on the outskirts OF the
city, or that the stations in the city,