Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-01
REVOLUTIONARIES
: LAY DOWN ARMS
WHITE FLAGS FLY IN THE CITY
OF MOSCOW
Uprising ls Completely Crushed and
the Entire Presna District Is
Occupied by Government
Troops
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
MOSCOW, Dec. 31.-White flags fly
ing from dozen factories in the tene-
ment houses of Presna district, where
the revolutionaries made their last
stand, now bear mute witness to the
end of the December uprising in Mos
cow" The entire district is now occu-
pied by troops.
During the night the vast majority
of the members of the Fighting
Legions" either surrendered or, after
throwing away their arms endeavored
to escape IN the guise of peaceful citi-
zens. Only the members who acted as
a guard to the revolu tionary committee
stuck to their colorS and the surrender
of this handful this morning furnished
the last act of the sanguinary drama.
The staging of this last act was adj
Ti1irable-a snow-covered landscape, the
small black residence with a tiny red
flag flutterng from it's gable, the end
of Gorbatoff bridge, black with the
guns of the artillery and a thin en-
circling line of the Seminovsky regi-
rnent OF the guard, broken only directly
in the line of fire. Suddenly there was
a flash Of red fire from the mouth of
one of the guns and a solid shot plowed
through the walls of the house. few
spluttering shots replied from win
dow. The cannon spoke again and
again; until dozen shots had been
fired.
1t looked like murder to the specta-
tors on the hill, and so evidently
thought the officers in command of the
battery, which ceased firing. A reserve
company of the Seminovsky regiment
then advanced and fired volleys at the
upper windows. At the third volley a
white handkerchief attached 10 bayo-
net was pushed through a shattered
pane. 1t waved frantically and all was
over The little garrison of 30 marched
out and laid down their arms, strange
collection of rifles and repeating shot
guns. All had revolvers.
Not One Wounded
Strange to say not one of the men
had even been wounded, and when they
found that they would not be immedi-
ately executed they appeared to be
rather relieved that the end of the
struggle had come. They gathered
around the soldiers bivouac, stretched
their hands eagerly over the cheerful
fires and begged cigarettes from the
guards
The number of prisoners is being
constantly augmented, most OF the new
arrivals being arrested at the bridges
or at other points of egress in the
Presna district which is crowded with
refugees.
The Associated Press learns that af-
ter the Prolkharoff cotton mill ano
other factories a council was hastily
held at which it was decided that the
revolution had failed and an order
was given to every man to save him
self as best he could. A hundred
agreed to hold together, so as to keep
up a show of fight under cover of which
the Others could escape.
After the final surrender the tnhab-
itants swarmed into the streets of the
Cl1nr
cleared away the barricades and other
obstructions with which for week the
revolutionaries had blockaded the dis
trict. This morning correspondent
of the Associated Press found street
where on Friday it was necessary to
climb over 30 barricades, clear from
end to end. All these except three,
which were carried by troops yester-
day, were demolished by the inhab-
itants, who were as industrious In tear
ing them down as they had been in
erecting them.
Correspondent is Searched
As the correspondent proceeded he
was several times searched by soldiers
who were endeavoring to discover rev.
olutionaries The soldiers were consid-
ePably perpleXed at the language ir
which the notes in the pockets of the
correspondent were written, but III
each case he was released
In squads of five the soldiers pene-
trated every house. searching foi
weapons,
Considering the intensity of yester'
days bombardment, when as many as
five shots a minute were fired, beside
the steady Volleys of the infantry, the
losses We're surprisingly small, moi
more than 40 of the reVolutionaries ol
the inhs3itants being killed and only
about -U0 being wounded in the district
The artillery yesterday was conceu-
trated mainly against the factory
fringing the district, but the revolu-
tionaries usually decamped at the first
chot, taking refuge in the cellars o.
the neighboring houses.
The shrapnel and rifle bullets die
not penetrate outside the outer walls
and only in a few cases did the walls
show complete penetration by the soliC
shot.
The correspondent visited the Proll-
haroff Manontoff and other factories
where, according to last nights reports
over 1000 of the fighters had perisheC
in the ruins. He found fragments o.
shrapnel everywhere, but no trace oi
slaughter, He was informed by
Caretaker who had stuck to his pos
throughout the fighting that there wat
only one person killed and a dozer
wounded.
Girls in the Fight
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