Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-01
White Flags Take Place
of Red Emblem in
Moscow.
MUCH SLAUGHTERING
Latest Indications Are That
Worst of Trouble is
Over.

Moscow. Jan. 1.-White flags flying
from a dozen factories in the tenement
houses of the Presna district, where the
revolutionaries made their last stand.
now bear mute witness to the end Of
the December uprising in Moscow
The entire district is now occupied by
troops
Threats of Renewal.
st. Petersburg. Jan. 1.-An official
communication published this morning
refers to the threats of the revolution
airy organs to renew the struggle this
month. The government, after declar-
ing that these rash statements are of
a nature calculated to intimidate i'll
informed people, announces its deter
mination energetically to- suppress all
preparations for such a rising. 1t de-
clares that the revolt. if carried into
effect. will be crushed with every
means in the power of the government.
An Awful slaughter.
st. Petersburg. Jan. 1.-Gov. Gen.
Doubassoff has telegraphed to the gov
ernment from Moscow that a large
meeting of revolutionists and strikers
at the Prokharoff cotton mill outside
the city was surrounded by troops of
all arms yesterday.
The artillery opened a terrific bonn
bardment and made a large rent in the
walls. which suddenly crum bled. ana
the building came down i'm heap.
Hundreds. If not thousand persons
were buried in the ruins.
Gen. Doubassoff regarded the Prok-
haroff mills as the stronghold of the
revolutionists. and he reports that Mos
COW viii be entirely cleared of them in
three days.
Continues with Vengeance.
ST. Petersburg. Jan. 1.-The policy
of repressing the revolutionists con-
tinues with a vengeance. Their an
nouncement that they proposed to car
ry on a guerrilla warfare until an arm
ed revolt is prepared has stimulated
the government TO redouble its energy.
The city prisons are SO crowded that
hundreds of prisoners have been re-
moved to neighboring fortresses.
among the workmen and revolutionary
societies with instructions to give war
nings of meetings which are to be i'm
mediately surrounded, members
searched for arms and ringleaders ar
rested. Nevertheless the workmen's
council and executive committee OF the
social revolutionists are managing TO
exade arrest, and are meeting each
day at different places on the outskirts
OF the city. Patrols are understood to
have orders not TO spare bullets If they
are attacked by persons using bombs
or revolvers.
An interview with Governor Gener-
al Doubassoff was printed today in
which he explains the duration of the
revolt Is owing to the extent OF the re-
siou in which the military forces are
operating and TO the lack of troops
which compel Doubassoff TO await rein
forcements from Warsaw and st. Pet
ersburg before giving the revolution
lists their death blow. "The most diff
ffcult task the governor continued,
..was TO drive them from their base on
the Kazan railroad between Moscow
anil Persvo, three miles east of Mos
COW and surround them in the Presna
district so as TO prevent lheir escape.
Both these tasks were zue sfully ac-
complished." f
Strikers of Frokhai 49,, hich
held proper as hostag Se ready tol
surrender Friday. but ,l. Minn. who
conducted the negotiai .Jns, declined to
accept their surrender unless they also
delivered up ''Drujinists" who had
sought refuge there. Doubassoff fu
ther declared emphatically that r Il
iery bombarded only the houses -om
which the revolutionists fired.
Reinforcements entered Courland
from four sides, but the leaders of the
Lettish revolutionists are imperturba
BILE. The papers publ'sh terrible pic
lures of the conditions prevailing along
the Siberian railway.
There are no railway officials on
duty. and on the section as far as
Cheliabinsk. the government Orenburg
all stations have seen piliaged. Com
pIete anarchy prevails II trkutsk. Mil
ifary trains are running without order
or proper engineers.
Troops ConverEinE.
Mitau, Jan. -Four columns of
troops, cavalry and artillery. are con