Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-30
With Pitchtorks and Soythe.
blades Held Their Own Against
Troops at Close Quarters.
ARTILLERY TERRIFIES THEM.
Slaughter Among Them Has Been
Great Many Women BEND
Found Among Slain.
Fought With q Courage That Amount,
Ell Almost to observation-disclosures
nrcnt is Gradually TrlltmphInE.

Bucharest, March 90.-FieId suna
loaded with grapeshot, according to the
Official reports. are winning against The
Revolutionary peasantry whose arms are
mostly hayforks and scythe-blades. The
insurgents were able to hold their own
against the troops AZ close quarters
and even wiShstood cavalry charges.
doing terrible execution with long
pronged forks arid scythe-bla Ies
strapped to long poles. but the sIaueh-
ter since the troops used artillery an
pears 10 be terrifying them into sub
'HlSSlpp- In the district OF vlashica,
where the outbreak was particularly
SERIOUS, large numbers OF Insurgents
nave surrendered and have denounced
tieif leaders to the authorities with he
resuH chat many OF the latter havn
been arrested, The government homes
THAI with the leaders In jail the ,,na;scs-
pinned bands Will soon abandon tha
field.
The sslf-styled generals" usually
turn out to be country school rnasters
and village priests Many women are
hshtng in the insprgent ranks and
some OF them have been found among
me Killed, side by side with their hns.
bands. sons and brothers.
Details of the attack n,s.,a Inv, ~.
peasants on Galatz show that a pitched
Daiste was Fought, The insurgents. who
were several thousand strong. com.
menced the assault at mlgnlght. carried
the outer earthworks by storm ana can.
tuted suburb, which they set on fire
atser pillasinS It, Three battaIlons r.
infantry attempted Ia stem the meas.
ants entry Into The city itself. but tbs
tetk and soythe armed rustIcs roueb,
desperately hand. to-hard arr ar,sa..
rou'eu ehe troops when the governor Or
uersd held gums, loaded with rrapeshot
10 De Hired at the insurgents Vic -
Tered and fled. The fire Of ~" 80
'wrousht great havoc upon the retTaat.
ing masses. wy - etieat-
number of conflicts between 4ronns
ana inaranders continue 70 he 70
poltea- TWO thousand Insurgents at
eforj are said to have been o,,lstNS Ky
the assurances of the AUTHORITIES yv-,t,
3ut resort TO force. One hundred ana
frty more rioters have beer u,o,,,a.a
at Baileschtchf aud several Of tbn,,,
KILLED and many arrested,
YVES used M CucueSrf amt
slseW where and in some instances Va
I ,n are said TO have been utterly
pessS.pyed by the fire OF nine-inch shells
Aiehcugll the disorders are dvf,,.
down IN some districts, the agitation
IS spreading In the adjacent PROVINCES
. anen Fiuhuering and incendiarlsin has
s ssI,s pace among The farmers aud I'm
isolated hamiets- Troops are in aetfvr
pursuit OF the maurauders.
with the object of preyent1nr ne
tar as possible the fraternizatisn 20
troops and peasants belonging tn tbs
same districts and also The possibilifv
ot tlshtlhg between relatives belong
ing to the opposing forces In The rev.
,u,ionary districts the Mcldayian troons
pclong1ns to the Fourth ARMY corns
nave peen transferred to Wallachin
While me Wallachian troops attarhrd
10 tue tlrst army corps have been IA
tailed for duty in Moldevla.
APPEALS From JEWS.
Washington, Marc .,1.-Secy. NJ state
Root has received "A llrinhAr ~ n,s,asfs,
from Jewish organia Ions in 1bIs co,',,7
th iot tne eSero' " good Offices BY
.s s.is suNerntneht he protection ot
d. sems ~ hou who are suffer-
, 80, it 'y tlls eA' Of the rebelious
Y !o,..s.y GA tty So far the
he could make nresentstinns o,,
the subject wis nett Ia thn AZ
,ressed people, In of the tant fiat
inc uprising OF the poasantry appears
% pc political and directed against the
throne, which Is doing everything pos-
sihle 70 stop the disorders