Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-26
TOday's Telegraphic News
The Russian Revolt.

St. Petersburg, Dec 26.-The troops
at Moscow have secured partial control
of the city, but fighting is still progress
ing 10 some districts. The government is
censoring all telegraph. from Moscow, so
that it is impossible to learn the true
conditions existing there. Travellers
who left Moscow on Sunday, however,
say that though the strikers were being
beaten in the street battles, they were
fighting with the utmost courage and
had inflicted great losses on the troops.
The ~oldiers are reported to have lost
800 men By Sunday. The troops have
been rendered extremely savage on ac-
count of their losses, and their officers
find it impossible to restrain the men
from perpetrsting the most savage tor
lures on any one falling into their hands.
Many innocent citizens have suffered at
their hands, as we'll as wounded strikers
who have been captured. Patrols of
troops ride through the city firing inn
mediately after they see even three or
four people together in the streets.
London, Dec. ga dispatch to tn,
Exchange Telegraph Company from st.
Petersburg says that the bourse and
banks are closed there. Desperate
fighting has occurred between the troops
and rebels at Moscow. The revolution
lists apparently have been successful, as
the area of the revolution is growing
broader.
St. Petersburg, Dec. &c via odessa.
The strike here has practically ended
ia the defeat of the strikers. Thousands
of the men who left their positions are
returning to work owing to the fact
that the strike committee is unable to
support them because Of the lack of
money. The opposition of the public
generally to the strike caused the people
to refuse to contribute to the strike fund
and this is one of the main causes for its
apparent failure. Over 700 strike leaders
are under arrest and this includes prac-
tically all the intelligent among the
strike managers. Socialists express con-
fidence that the present check 10 the
strike is only temporary, and declare they
will be able to bring about in st. Peters
burg the same condition which prevails
at Moscow. In reality their present de-
feat is a hard blow to the socialists, how
ever, as it has discredited them more
than any other one thing, which has
happened since the revolution began.
Count Whites power, which fortnight
ago was in great danger, of being swept
entirely away, has accordingly grown 10
strength. His policy of forcing an end
to the postal and telegraph strike and
the lack of success of the present
strike have combined to make him more
powerful than ever before. His semi
reactionary conduct has also lifted him
in higher favor with the court and all
talk of his suppression is dying out. A
special council, over which the Car pre-
sided, has decided to send brigade of
troops, under the command of General
Orloff, to crush the revolt in the Baltic
provinces.
London. Dec. 26.-The st. Peters
burg correspondent of the Daily Tele-
graph reports that 5000 men, women
and children were killed and 1000
more wounded in the revolutionary up.
rising at Moscow up until Monday
morning The street fighting was con-
tinued on Christmas day and is continu-
ing desperately.