The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-25
ALL DEPENDS IN
 CARS TROOPS Civil War Threatened Within
 Next FOry-cight Hours UNNATURAL CALM REIGNS
In St. Petersburg Smart Sleghs and Equipages of the Aristocrats Throng the Fashionable
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St. Petersburg, December q, s:S0 D. m.-- With Moscow's baptism of blood, the rev. olutionaries made good their threat to transform the strike into armed rebellion. and the next forty eight hours should de- termine whether they can marshal suf- tieient strength to plunge the country into an actual state of civil war and seriously threaten the immediate downfall of tha government.
 The government professes confidence that the whole attempt will fail owing to the woeful insuffciency of arms in pos session of the proletariat, and by reason of the loyalty of the army as whole; but it's calculations might again be rude ly upset A few arsenals might be seized to furnish arms, the open support or d few regiments might start a landslide in the army Certainly the shrewdest o, the revolutionary leaders fully appreciate that the issues must be decided by the attitude of the army. which Is yet to east the die.
 Will List the Troops.
 instructions have gone forth that risings must occur everywhere in order to test the troops. and if foothod can be se- 
 tionarles to set up provisional govern ment and proclaim republic.
 Thus far reports from Moscow do not clear up the vital points as to whether any of the troops there actually refused to obey commands. although there arc per- sstent rumors that they did
 Revolutionary leaders claim 10 have confirmation of report that q grenader brigade and some Cossacks, mutlnied, and are now locked up in their barracks.
 While the military succeeded eyerywhers in driving the insurgents from their barrl- cades in Moscow Saturday night, the de- feat evidently was not a decisive one, as harrlcades were again thrown up in dozens of places this morning, and hght- ing was renewed before II o'clock.
 Trouble Threatened in Capital.
 The Associated Press understands that orders have been issued for an uprising here, but the governments measured seemingly render this impossible. No meetings. public or private. are allowed under an order which makes an assembly of more than five persons In private lodging illegal.
 The prisons and jails are filled With the leaders of revolutionary societies and agl- tators. Two coaches of arms have been seized and an entire organization con- sisting of 300 "crujina', as the student militia is called has been captured.
 Smart Equpages Fill Streets.
 Rumors~ were purposely circulated that an uprising would be inaugurated at demonstration of workmen in the Sevsky Prospect this evening, but they proved to be unfounded. The city in fact was un- naturally calm on the surface, and stranger dropping down on the Neysky Prospect this evening would have seen no evidence of ferment. II was bright. crisp, winter dap, and smart sleighs and equipages of the aristocrats, with their occupants cloaked in sables and other rich furs were out In force. Only tho sulen faces of >~e crowds of strikers on the sidewalks and heavy horses and foot patrols every block looked ominous
 If the plans of the revolutonares to produce an uprising in St. Petersburg fails, as IL is believed they will, an at tempt certainly will be made to terrorizs the government by guerrilla warfare in which bombs will play the chief role. The government having embarked in war against the reds it Is difficult to sea how 1t can draw back one step.
 The acceptance by the governor gem eral of Moscow of the offer of the noto- rious reactionary Prince Fcherbatof to organize the 'loyalists' as a militia has created a shudder of horror,