Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-02
HEAVY LOSS AT MOSCOW
DAMAGE DONE WITH GUNS AND
TORCH DURING REVOLT.

| Now that the excitement about the Mos
| COW revolt has somewhat subsidized 1t Is
| easier to form just estimate of its pro-
| portions.
| A cablegram to the New York World says:
| 1t can be confidently asserted that during
| the whole uprising and In all the fighting
not more than 300 persons were killed and
| 900 wounded, and OF these only 100 were
| revolutionaries.
| The rebels did not number more than
| 5000 in all. The absurd reports In some
| English and French newspapers that there
| were 10000 supplied with quick-firin guns
were simply copied from the reactfonary
| Moscow newspaper Ussky Nystok, which
deliberately exaggerated the rebels
| strength to gain greater credit for the
| troops
The military authorities made several
| egresious blunders in suppressng the up
| rising.
| Red Cross Fired On.
| For instance, soldiers fired on the Red
| Cross staff, which was organized by sur
| geons who We're members of the Medical
| Union of Russia, because they were certain
| that the military medical staff would at
tend only soldiers.
| Shoot the Jews Red Cross" the SOL
| diers cried once, when they fired on the
| one Jew in that particular band
On Saturday, when Governor General
Doubassoff ordered the Moscow people not
| to leave their houses before o. clock in
the morning. the artillery began to fire
| at O'Clock and many dwellings, were SO
dangerous to remain in that people in their
| night clothes ran into the streets. One
| hundred such were killed or wounded.
| In the Lefontovia quarter patriotic pro-
| cession, organized by the reactionary party
was proceeding to church carrying ban
! NJ HnG In n,,I
singing the national anthem. when the
| troops fired on the procession. 1t was
enough that they saw crowd.
! The damage done in the Presna quarter Is
| estimated at s., 500 600
These blunders gained certain sympathy
| for the revolutionarfes among the well-to-
! do classes in Moscow, as did the fact that
the rebels forced tradesmen to sell bread
and meat at ordinary prices, which were
trebled when reinforcements of troops ar
| rived.
But the socialists hostile attitude to the
| car and to religion will prevent them from
| holding the sympathy of the people, who at
| heart are conservative and profoundly Or
| thodoX.
| 10000 Homeless or Dead in Moscow.
| cabegram from London to the World
| says: Nothing is now visible In a whole
! square mile of the city but smoking ruins"
| the Moscow correspondent of the Standard
| telegraphs. Many mills have been de-
|
| IS estimated that 10000 persons are home
! less or dead Judging from the enormous
| heaps of corpses dragged from the ruins by
| the firemen who are now playing upon the
| smoldering ruins, the majority must be
| reckoned dead.
| "On Wednesday night the revolutonaries
| came within an ace of capturing the pre-
| feet and the whole administrative quarter,
| but they failed to push their advantage to
| the uttermost
| Thursday night witnessed the arrival by
special trains of the entire Smonovsky Reg
| !ment of the Guards from st. Petersburg,
| and of a brigade of artillery. Other guards
were brought from Warsaw, where also a
| couple of infantry regiments had been sum-
moned-
Imposing Display Of Force.
| The imposing display of force had its
| effect on the insurgent leaders, who the
| same night gave word to their followers to
| dispense.
THE following day the police began to
| make their arrangements.
| AT O'Clock Saturday morning a muir
| derous cannonade commenced such as had
| hitherto been unheard in Moscow. This was
| followed by confagration unparalleled
| since the patriotic incendiarism in the
| French invasion of 1872. A square mile of
| the capital has been laid in ruins. What
7 the guns spared was purposeiy fired in or
| der to smoke out the revoutionaries from
! their retreats.
| 1.-THE whole district was surrounded by
| troops who shot down the wretched inhabi-
! tants as they fed from the fury of the
| flames. while artillery posted at five posi-
| tons played necessarily on the doomed
| quarter from o'clock in the morning until
| In the afternoon
Indiscriminate Slaughter.
| The details of this ruthless suppression
OF rebellion by indlseriminate slaughter are
| understandable. Between 1 and o'clock the
| firing was perhaps at its slackest and in
| dividual shots could be noted. Yet even In
| this period counted. watch in hand, forty
| rounds in five minutes from batteries near
| est the center of the town.
zone battery of Moscow artillery Is under
arrest for having refused to fire.
II am informed that the object of the
| government In carrying out this wholesale
| butchery was to prevent a. similar attempt
| In St. Petersburg"
| The Moscow correspondent OF the Times
| reports:
1.-THE Presna quarter has been completely
| destroyed by artillery. 1t was the poorest
quarter and almost entirely composed of
| wooden houses. The Prokharon mills and
the Schmidt factory, which served as de-
| pots of arms for the reyolutionaries, and
| the geological and botanical gardens were
all destroyed by the flames. The whole sky
was redeemed.
1.-THE last of the revolutionary cohorts was
commanded by girl of eighteen"
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