Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-01-01
Revolutionists Fight With
Desperate Courage and
Are Moved Down
Armed Forces Are Being
Assembled to End
Cars Reignj

London, Dec. 26-The correspond
ent of the Daily Telegraph at st.
Petersburg, in a dispatch dated at
6:45 p. m, Dec. %, says: AT an
early hour this morning the casualties
at Moscow were estimated at 5000
killed and $4,000 wounded, with the
fighting still proceeding. The inhabi-
tants of Moscow have been forbid
den to leave their dwellings, after Z
o'clock in the evening. 1t is impos-
sible to move about the city in con-
sequence of the frequency of stray
bullets. Many innocent persons have
been accidentally killed. A scarcity
of provisions is threatened.
The same correspondent, tele-
graphing at 1898 p. M, says: Your
Moscow correspondents kilograms
have not been accepted because all
private messages were refused this af-
ternoon 1t is learned, however,
that cannon firing is now proceeding
in various parts of the city, where to-
night, very near the railroad stations,
the barricades erected by the reVolu-
tionaries are being desperately defend
ed. The Kursk terminus at Moscow
is being pillaged.
Revolution Is on.
London, Dec. 26-The worst fears
of peaceful Russians have been
realized Licensed slaughter pre-
walls in Moscow. Hundreds, pos
sibly thousands, have been butchered
in unequal battles between the MUIR
derous Cossacks and the fanatlcaly
courageous revolutiOnists.
Russia is almost isolated from the
rest of the world, and the silence is
ominous. Communication with Mos
COW direct has been cut off, but from
such fragments of news as are reach
ing London by roundabout routes from
the former capital and from other
points of the empire it is apparent
that the conditions in many parts OF
the land are most grave.
1t now is seen that the rebels have
planned better and further than the
government suspected, and that their
bolt is not shot Although many be-
lieve they are fighting a losing cause
and are doomed to defeat at the hands
of the czar's trained troops, fragments
of news which found their way here
today indicate the leaders have dis
closed only few Of their plans.
Forces are being assembled and dIlIF
ed, the revolutionary leaders assert
which will advance upon the soldiers
and, if the latter do not cast their IoO
with the people, they will be attacked
In other words, if what the leaders
say be true, organized civil war ~
break out
At Orechoffsueff, near Moscow, 1t %
asserted, an army of 10000 Is re'u'
to march to the war.
In the more isolated sections IHtI0
is less disorder. because there the
revolutionists hold sway Troops d
few in the country, and the Ioc'A -
ficials and loyalists alike are '''
rorized by the rebels.
The car, now fully converted u
policy of reaction, regardless VI ~
many lives are lost if only his lHI0n
he saved him. is making the H0
desperate efforts to crush the Ieu,
by such terrible slaughter that III
foes of the government who SuL'i,
! will be forced into silence. Prem
Witte apparently is the ull" iI ..an
! sponsor for the acts of the reac1io
aries. Witte is for peace and Lol
modified form Of the present so'V ~
ment and, unable to concilaIe
/ tive is III despair.