The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-28

vineial government composed of twenty seven delegates, which had been sitting there, were captured early in the day and later when the red flag was raised and barricades were erected around the Hell frich engine works which armed revolu- tionists were holding, cannon were brought up and the revolutionists were given ten minutes in which to surrender They then sent out an emissary, who was seized by the military commander. who then gave the command to the artillery to open fire on the works, which were literally battered down over the heads of the revolutlonists The latter although unable to make a defense, held out until three-quarters of their number were killed and wounded when the remnant, 17 men, surrendered.
 Lieutenant General Mitschenko, who commanded a Cossack brigade in Man churla during the Russo-Japanese war, has arrived at Moscow and may have
 taken over the command of the troops
 there. He had narrow escape from cap
 ture by the revolutlonists at St. An
 drews monastery on the outskirts of the
 city, where the railroad track was blocked
 by barrIcades of freight and passenger
 cars. The general and two members of
 his staff managed to get sleigh and
 reach Moscow by making wide detour,
 but 800 officers returning from ManchuIfa
 who were left behind were captured and forced to give up their arms They begged to be allowed to keep the gold swords given them for bravery but the revolutionists refused their request. Mor Collisions Continue.
 Minor collisions between the troops and
 strikers, of whom there are almost 50,O00
 still out. are taking place constantly in St. Petersburg. Cossacks patrols are charging and dispensing workmen when ever they collect The mots serious af-
 fair occurred at Narva gate and on the
 Moika canal in which fifty persons were
 killed or wounded. Automatic guns have
 been mounted on the bridge over the Fontanka canal, from which they can
 sweep the Nevsky Prospect in either direction and in also both ways of the
 canal. The battery is enclosed in a collapsible shed in order not to attract too much attention.
 Following the example of the authorities
 at Moscow about half the police of St. Petersburg are now armed with rifles | and the unwonted spectacle of policemen
 with bayonets on their rifles adds to the public alarm.
 Strike Extends Alarmlngly. The news from the provinces today shows an alarming extension of the strike. Koyno a fortres stown of Lithu-
 ania, having about SO00O inhabitants,
 seems absolutely in the hands of the so-
 cialists. and the situation is so serious
 at Krementchug, South Russia. that the government has declared martial law. At Saratoff, In Eastern European Rus sia, wholesale arrests have been made, but the strike Is extending. At Kief
 serious collisions have taken place be- tween the troops and the strikers, during which about forty persons were killed or wounded.
 The employees of the Southwestern rail- 1 road did not report for duty yesterday | and were dismissed.
 | At Tihis the difficulty was patched up between the Mussumens and the Ar ] menians.
 The situation is far more serious in | the Baltic provinces, Caucasia ad other | non Russian provinces. where the entire | populace is hostile. In the case of Baltic provinces 1t Is realized that 1t may be necessary 10 practically reconquer them. ', The first divisions of the first army crops which belongs to St. Petersburg province have begun to arrive here from Man chura but they are being dispatched to
 the Baltic provinces without stopping | here.