The Glenwood post., 1905-12-30
REVOLT CRUSHED
MILITARY CLAIM TO HAVE CON.
TROL AT MOSCOW.
REBEL LEADERS CAPTURED

Disaffection Among the Troops Over
come. - Insurgents Nearly EN-
hausted.-count Witte Regsinine
Confidence.
st. Emperor Nicholas
and Count Witte received report
Tuesday from General DoubassofY,
governor general of MOSCOW, saying
that the revolt there had failed. that
the military had the situation in hand
and that whatever disaffeCtiOn may
have existed among the troops had
been overcome by attacks on them
with bombs and revolvers to which
they had been subjected from the win
dows and roofs of houses and which
had SO enraged them they could hardly
be restrained.
Although rebellion may fare up i'm
mediately elsewhere, and although
there is already an indication OF an
other upheaval at Odessa, If the at
tempt at armed rebellion in Moscow
should be crushed the leaders of the
reds" will receive blow from which
they cannot quickly recover.
Count Witte is not so blind as to be
lieYe that the revolution can be
stamped out, but with the present dem
onstration of the lengths TO which the
reds are willing to go. he hopes that
the moderates of all classes Will come
to their senses and aid in counseilinEl
order and in accelerating the convoCa-
tion of the Douma. the law governing
the elections to which was published,
to-day.
A late report from Moscow says
that firing continued intermittently
throughout the day. At 5 O'Clock au-
ton, II, al.
Strastner square butt the insurgents
We're becoming exhausted after their
four days efforts and the fighting was
rapidly degenerating into guerilla war
fare.
Among the developments here Tues
day the most important was the cap
turc of the leaders of the fighting le
gions,' which it is believed ends the
danger of an attempt at an uprising
in st. Petersburg.
This capture, it is understood.
places in the hands of the government
complete information regarding revo-
lutionary plans and the places where
arms are concealed, as well as disclos.
ing the weak spots in the army.
Shortly before o'clock tonight the
correspondent, of the Associated Press
telephoned from Moscow that there
insurreclion was collapsing. The in
surgents still held the quadrangle in
which the Workmen's Council was SIT
ting as a revolutionary committee. but
only because Governor Doubasoff was
not yet ready to give the coup do
grace.
The insurgents were defending
themselves with revolvers and bombs
as they were being hunted down from,
mousse to house.
The correspondent says that the en-.
tire population of the city is terror
stricken and that after dark the back
streets present "A weird and uncanny
appearance. AS he drove TO the tele-
phone station he saw only few civ
ilians, who We're Sinking along by The.
side of the walls so as to avoid the.
police and cavalry patrols, who fro
without challenging.
The windows of the houses are
stuffed with mattresses and blankets,
and no light is showing 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 9
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 hun
dreds of miles distant