The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-04-01
DEFEAT SCYTHES
WITH GRAPE SHOT.
RoUMANIA pEASANTS FIELD I'M.
PIGMENTS BEsTED WITH
FIELD GUNS.
REVOLT IS BEING ENDED
by Merciless Slaughter Of Rioters
BY Troops--Deady Fire From
Small Cannon Sweep Away
RabbIe Forces.


Bucharcs March 81 Field guns
loaded with grape Shot, are winning
against the revolutionary peasantry
whose arms ar mostly hay forks and
scythe blades.
The insurgents were able to hold
their own against the troops at close
quarters and even withstood cavalry
charges. doing terrible ex cltion with
long pronged forks and scythe blades
ttrapped 10 long poles but the slaugh-
ter since the troops used artillery ap-
pears to be terrifying tn m into sub,
mission.
In the district of Vlashica, where
The outbreak, was particularly serious,
Ia &c numbers Of insurgents have sur.
rendered and have denounc d their
leaders to the author ties, with the re-
suit that many of the latter have
been arrested. TIL government hopes
hat with the leaders in jail. the un.
disciplined bands viii soon abandon
the field
The self-styled egenerals" usually
turn out to be country school masters
and yillag priests. Many women are
fighting in The insurgent ranks and
some of them have been found among
the killed, side by side with their hus.
bands, sons and brothers.
Liked a Pitched Battle.
Details OF tha attack made by the
PEASANTS on Galatz show that pitch
ed battle was fought The insurgents
who were several thousand strong,
commenced The assault at midnight,
carried the outer earthworks by
storm, and captured suburb, which
sIfiey sci on fiie afte piilagiag it
Three baitaiions of infantry at
tempted to stem the peaaants entry
into the city itself. but the fork and
scythe armed rustics fought desperate
ly, hand to hand, and had almost
routed the troops when the governor
ordered field guns loaded with grape
shot, to be fired al the insurgents,
who waverGd and then fed. The fire
ofthe guns wrought great havoc on
The retreating masses.
A number OF confiits between troops
and marauderG continue to be report
ed. Two thousand insurgents at Geri
are said to have been quieted by the
assurances of the authorities, with
out resort to force. 0ns hundred and
iifty more rioters ahve been wounded
at Baileschtchi and seve' al of them
killed and many arrested.
Whole Villages Wiped Out.
Artillery was used at Cucuesti Val
oelele and elsewhere and in some
instane while villages are said TO
have been utterly destroyed by the |
fire OF nine inch shells.
Although the disorders are dying |
down in some districts, the agitation
is spreading in the provinces adjacent
10 the Carpath'an mountains. which
hitherto have been quiet. Much plum
dering and lncendiaiism has taken
place among the farms and in Isolated
hamlets. Troops are in active pur-
sit of the marauders.
With the object OF preventing so far
as possible the fraterization of troops
and peasants belonging to the same
districts. and also the possibility Of
fighting between relatives belonging
to the opposing forces in the revolu-
iionary di iricts the Moldayian troops
4 longing to the Fourth army corps
have been transferred TO Little Walla-
CHA. while the Wallachian troops at
tached to he First army corps have
been detailed for duty in Moldavla.