The sun., 1906-01-02
PLAN OF REVOLT ABANDONED.
RIsSI4N DERS ANNOUNCE
CHANGE or PROGRAMME.
General Uprising Scheduled for the Russian
Ncw Year Is Called OFT Rebels at
Moscow surrender and Give Up Their
Arms--Gen. Orion Defeats the Let's.

spfcfai C'dbis Dispatches TO THE Sun.
Sr PETERSBURG. Jan 1.-The revolu-
tonnrv societies issued manifesto to-day
stating that in view of the failure of tn cir
rl.,nrs they have decided to refrain from
ordering general insurrect ion at the be-
ginning of the Rlissanl new year, as such
a declaration would be likely to intimidate
Che i'll informed and timid portion of the
Iopulation'
The Government has declared its inten-
zion vigorously to reprcss any preparations
for a rising, and in the event of general
Instruction is determined Immediately
10 crush it. The inhabitants of st. Peters,
burg are exhorted not to entertain any
fear of an outbreak in the capital.
The general strike, which was called
Dec, 2l. was officially declared at an end
al noon to-day.
The call ending the strike was responded
10 with alacrty, the workmen in all places
controlled by the Council of Workmen's
Delegates resuming their labors almost as
soon as the call reached them. The train
seryices are rapidly becoming normal.
The strike. however continues on the
Siberian Railway. which returning troops
hold. they having driven off the railway
men. Troop trains are being rushed home
ward with crews of soldiers. No regard
Is paid to timetables, with the result that
many casualties have already occurred,
and heavier disasters are feared.
The Government is taking energetic
measures to forestal the threatened rising
in the spring. Hundreds of persons are
being arrested throughout the empire.
and arms bombs and documents are being
seized Disorders continue at many places
apart from the strike.
Moscow, Dec. 3l.-The Prokhoroff cotton
mill, in which the revolutionists made their
last stand was surrendered to-day after
he rebels had given up their arms. The
lnstigators of the revolt, with other revo-
lutionaries in the Presna district, also sur
rendered after the last efforts of the revo-
hltionaries were crushed. The Semenovsky
regiment occupied the quarter without
further fighting. The total number Of
arrests made in the Presna quarter was
lSo. The population of the district had been
warned and was able to escape before the
bombariment by the military began.
The authorities have organized homes
for women and children who are without
shelter. The damage to property in the
Quarter amounts TO llllllOnS Oh TuDleS.
Reenforcements continue to arrive.
LONDON. Jan. IA news agency de-
spatch from st. Petersburg reports that
Russian power has been restored in the
Baltic district. The troops under Gen
Orlof have defeated 1000 Let's and cap
tured four insurgent villages.
LONDON, Jan. 2.-The Moscow corre-
spondent of the Er press says that the
rebels there intended to make their last
stand on the south side of the Moskwa
River, which bounds the Presna quarter
on the south. The ice in the river was very
thick, and the insurgents relied on crossing
the river under cover of night
The military authorities learned Of the
plan and prepared trap. The Gordon
Of troops was tightened. thus pressing the
rebels toward the river late Saturday
night. The insurgents expected to cross
without difficulty. but a battalion of sappers
had cut a chasm thirty feet wide through
The ice down the centre of the river, into
which the rebels plunged headlong or were
shot down as they tried to return by in
fantry on the south bank, who fired volley
after volley into the mob of screaming
refugees.
Belated details of the events at Moscow
continue to arrive here. The most sober
correspondents concur in stating that the
casualties have been grossly xaggerated
The exact figures will, of course, never be
known.
To-day's capitulations vary from a few
hundreds to 1000 killed and proportionate
number wounded. Many corpses of men
in women's clothing have been found in
the ruins, which explains the stories of a
great number of women taking part in tho
fighting.