New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-22
FAVOR ARMED RETOLT.
Meetings of Worh'men IN Mosco5U So
Declare-CoIisions uith Troops.

London. Dec 21.-A dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph Company from st. Petersburg says
that numerous meetings OF workmen at Mos
COW, including the engineers and postal tele-
graph employees have declared in favor of an
armed revolt. All the available troops, it is
added, have been modified and guns have been
placed in position before the law courts
st. Petersburg, Dec. 21.-The single telephone
wire working to Moscow this afternoon brought
grave reports of serious disorders and collisions
betw the troops and the populace.
The "Narshadney." formerly the Syn On
techestva" and other secretly published pa
pers which are being distributed by thousands
to the workmen, are filed with the most in
flammatory appeals. melting the people to an
armed rebellion. Many of the articles are es-
pecIaIly directed to the army which is implored
not to shed the blood of the nation. One writer
addressing the soldiers said: Join US Rise
with US. No power can stand against the peo-
pie and the army united.
Crowds of strikers at Moscow marching
through the streets, endeavoring to close up the
postoffiee and other places.
Advices from Ryezhitsa, in the Government of
Vitebsk, announce that a rising has occurred In
that vicinity similar to the instruction in Ii
vonia-
The report that Kharkoff is in the hands of the
revoiutionists is confirmed. Two hundred and
fifty men of the StarobyelSk and Lebedinsk
regiments have Joined the revolutionsts, and
their comrades have fatty refused to fire on
them.
At Nikolaieff the revoIted regiments have been
captured Two hundred and fifty prisoners were
sent TO Otchakof fortress. The capture of the
Inutineers was effected by General Stupin. who
on the arrival of reinforcements from Odessa
unexpectedly attacked the barracks where the
mutineers had assembled. The latter soon sur
rendered.
According to information received in the
night from Moscow that city was in state OF
great excitement yesterday. The inhabitants
were scurrying about buying supplies of can
dies ETC. the stores were boarded up, the great
and the postal telegraph offices which had par
TALLY resumed their services were again closed.
Last night Moscow was in darkness.
The strike leaders at Moscow are Roasting
that the strike will be transformed into an
armed revolution, the orators at the meetings
declaring that Russia will be drenched with
blood before the long struggle ends.
General Doubassch. Governor General of
Moscow who has taken possession of the late
livered an address TO the municipal authorities
Yesterday, in which he declared an unrelenting
war on agitators. He spoke of the shame to
Russia that Moscow, the former buwark Of the
autocracy, and the holy city where the En-
perors came to pray. should become the centre
of disorder and insolent agitation for the over
throw of the Emperor, The general further
preserye the autecracy mistaken but they must
organize and suppress the criminal elements
and he had accepted his present post because
he wished to be in the forefront of the battle
where he could show his devotion to the EN-
peror.