Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-27
BEGUN BY THE ANARCHISTS
Open on the Troops After Thinking 1t
Over an Hour.

over an Hour
London, Dec. 25.-The Daily Tele-
graphs st. Petersburg correspondent,
describing the fight Mt Moscow, under
date of Dec. "a. says: 1.-THE first shots
We're fired by the revolutionaries on
the troops outside Fidler's school,
which was surrounded. The revolu-
tionaries had been given one hour in
which to surrender. Fifty-tive minutes
had passed, and the commander of the
troops was about to give the order to
fire. when Il volley came from the
house, Several soldiers We're killed or
wounded. The troops Immediately re
piled.
.Soon white handkerchief was
waved from Il window. The troops
entered, but We're greeted With rifle
fire, and they retired and again bonn
barded the house. Shortly afterwards
white flag was again waved and the
surrender of the revolutionaries was
completed" The correspondent also
describes the fighting III other sections
of the city. resulting in every case in
the defeat of the revolutionaries.
''rhe desperate courage of the mob"
the correspondent says. was marvel
Gus. Units of threes, tens and hun
dreds would sally forth, be driven
back and rally again against the eEOr-
nous odds. eager to accomplish the i'm
possible. Early in the evening the
hospitals were filled and private dwell
ing houses We're crowded with the
wounded. The principal thoroughfare,
the Everskaia. looks like street III a
city captured by a foreign foe. Bivouac
fires burn in the streets and rifles are
stacked on the pavement.
During all this needless effusion of
blood. in old Moscow the people were
shopping, visiting and otherwise car.
rying on the ordinary occupations as II
nothing in particular was going on
SAYS 1T WILL BE DECISIVE
But Not as Anarchy Desires-Peas-
| ants Are the Threat Now.
The correspondent then says: "Yes
terday's doings marked the most i'm
| portant manifestation of Russian anar
cliy, and will prove, as the anarchists
assert, decisive. So far as one car
| judge they will end in the complete de
feat of the anarchists, who will be 81
fenced in Russia for several years
There is still hope that popular re
dictionary movement may be avoided
but the wrath of the peasants is wax
ing strong.
"In the station at Yelna. on the Kief
and Voronezh line. entire families OF
railway officers and strikers have bcel
literally cut to pieces by infuriatet
peasants, and there is other cumiila
tive evidence of n determination OF
the part of the peasants to oppose The
strikers.
"The anarchists have not dislodge(
the government, imprisoned Premier
Witte. or deposed the emperor, bu
they have struck n deadly and wantor
blow ut the empire. Already hungry
bands are pillaging wherever they can
AT the station of Nicolaieff, on til,
Kazan railway, they looted fifteen car
loaded with necessaries of life TO
the Christmas tide.
"a ukase will be published in da!
or two embodSing the new electora
law and fixing n date for the election
to the douma. The severcst criticism
is directed against the government 70
failing to adopt promptly repressiv
measures against the revolutionists"
Another Moscow dispatch says
"Tlle plan of the armed rising of til
| proletariat was to seize the ST. Peters
burg station at dawn Saturday. TAX
possession of the douma building
capture the state bank and proclaim
provisional government"