The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-24
|ENT|RE EMPIRE
IS AbLAZE AND
ANARCHY RE|GNs
Dynamite Used to Blow Up
Buildings in Russia's
Ancient Capital.
Mobs Assail Revolutionists.
and Troops Battle at
Barricades.
The Reds Preach Crusade
| -"
Against Non-Russians,
Especially Jews.
Government to Bring Man
churian Army Home by
Water, Disar1ned.
Empire Divided Into Dis.
tricts for Revolt by Foes
Of Gear. :
Now York Herald Special Service.

Now Xork Herald special service.
- T OSCoW, Dec. 24-cannon
" from the governor generals
palace are raking the streets
with shrapnel. The Kremlin is closed.
The famous Cossack General Mis-
tchenko arrived last night and is sup
posed to be directing operations.
The situation is hourly growing
worse. The insurgents hold several
quarters Of the city and fighting con-
tinues desperately.
By Publishers Press.
Berlin, Dec. 24.-Dispatches from
Moscow state that during the fighting
which occurred between revolutionists
and the loyal troops 400 insurgents have
been killed. Five officers and fifteen
soldiers have been killed or wounded.
st. Petersburg, Dec. 24.-The country
is ablaze with revolution. Revolution.
lists have constructed barricades in the
streets Of Moscow and these are being
shelled by artillery.
In that city also factories and other
institutions in which the workers re-
fused to go on strike, have been set on
fire or blown up with dynamite.
1t is charged by the revolutionists
that policemen in plain clothes are going
among the people melting them against
the strikers, whose families in some in
| stances have been massacred.
| A mob, melted by police agents,
seized a group Of students, tore off their
clothing and dubbed them to death.
Reds Control Telegraph.
Having control Of the lines Of COM
munication, the revolutionists have In
tercepted many government secrets,
which they are using to advantage. By
information thus gained they have been
enabled to photograph all the govern
ment detectives, whose portraits they
have distributed widely. This has
compelled the police to obtain new
agents. The revolutionary leaders
have ordered their followers to abstain
! from violence and save their bullets
until fighting begins in earnest.
The plans Of the revolutionary or
CARNATIONS have been elaborated to an
extraordinary degree. The cities and
| the country have been divided into dis
| tricts, each having an executive and .
| military organization and each receiv-
ing orders from the central COMMITTEES.
Village and country neighbors are
being thoroly canvassed by students
dressed like generals, who distribute
manifestos, ordering the people to stop
the payment Of government dues, to dis
obey the officials and confscate tho
lands Of the mobiles. They represent
| these to be the orders Of the car.
Seed Of Revolt in Army.
i Other agents are working in the army
along similar lines. Peasants and SOL
diers are strictly obeying these instruc-
tions in many quarters. This has
obliged the government to dispatch
Cossacks to the country, leaving the
cities largely unprotected. As the rev.
olutionists hold the railroads and tele-
graphs, they are enabled to pass troops
that are friendly while refusing passage
to others.
. The government has contracted with
3 German companies to transport the Man
churian army home by water. The sol
diers are to be disarmed and disbanded
before they are permitted to land.
4 Vitebsk province has joined the
Livonian republic. The Poles in Lithu-
! ania and Poland are entreating the
Jews to adopt the Polish language and
join with them in establishing repub-
lie, thus settling both the Polish and
the Jewish questions. In those regions
Christians and Hebrews are nearly equal
: in numbers and it is recognized that
neither element is able to accomplish
anything without the hearty co-opera-
ton of the other. The provinces of
8 Continued on I'd Page. 9th Column.