Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30
Country Schoolmasters and Village
Priests Go to Make Up the Corps
of Commandants.
HOW GALATZ WAS ATTACKED
Disorders Are Dying Down in Some Of
the Districts, but the Agitation
is Spreading to the Carpa-
THAN Mountains.

BUCHAREST, March 3O-Field guns
loaded with grapeshot according to the Of.
hcial reports. are winning against the revo-
lutionary peasantry. whose arms are most
ly hay forks. and scythe blades The insur-
gents were able to hold their own against
the troops at close quarters and even with
stood cavalry charges. doing terrible exc
cution with long-pronged forks and scythe
blades strapped to long poles, but the
slaughter since the troops used artillery
appears to be terrifying them into submits
sion. In the district of Vlashica, where the
outbreak was particularly serious large
numbers of insurgents have surrendered
and have denounced their leaders to the
authorities, with the result that many Of
the latter have been arrested The gov
eminent hopes that with the leaders in Jail
the undisciplned bands will soon abandon
the field.
Self-Styled Generals.
The self-styled generals" usually turn
out TO be country schoolmasters and village
priests. Many women are fighting in the
insurgent ranks, and some them have been
found among the killed. side by side with
their husbands. sons and brothers.
Details of the attack made by the peas
ants on Galatz show that a pitched battle
was fought. The insurgents who were sew
eral thousand strong, commenced the as
sault at midnight, carried the outer earth
works by storm and captured a suburb,
which they set on fire after pilaging 1t.
Three battalons of infantry attempted to
stem the peasants entry into the city it
self, but the fork and scythe armed rustics
fought desperately, hand to hand, and had
almost routed the troops when the governor
ordered field guns loaded with grapeshot
to be fired at the insurgents, who wavered
and then fled. The fire of the guns wrought
great havoc on the retreating masses.
Number of Conflicts.
number of conflicts between troops and
marauders continue to be reported. Two
thousands insurgents at Corr said to
have been quieted by the assurances of the
authorities, without resort to force. A hun
dred and fifty more rioters have been
wounded at Baileschtchi and several of
them have since died and many have been
arrested
Artillery was used at Cucuesti valoelele
and elsewhere and in some instances whole
villages are said to have been utterly de-
stroyed by the fire OF nine-inch shells.
Disorder Dying Down.
Although the disorders are dying down in
come districts the agitation is spreading In
the provinces adjacent TO the Carpathan
mountains, which hitherto have been quiet
Much plundering and incendiarsm have
taken place among the farms and in isolated
hamlets. Troops in active pursuit of
the maraudTrs.
With the object of preventing so far as
possible the determination of troops and
peasants belonging TO the same districts
and also the possibility of fignting between
relatives belonging to the opposing forces
in the revolutionary districts, the Moldayian
troops belonging to the 4th Army Corps
have been transferred 10 Little WalIacha
while the Wal!achan troops attached TO
the LIST Army Corps have been detailed for
duty in MUdavia.
Moldavia Pacifed
PARIS March 20.-The Roumanian min
lister here today made public dispatch re-
Ceived from the government of Bucharest
announcing that Moldavia has been paci-
fled as a result OF the rigorous measures
adopted. and adding that the troubles in
Wallachia are still serious. Many farms
have been destroyed and further reinforce
ments Of troops are proceeding TO that part
OF the country. Seven hundred arrests
have been made at Teleorman. The petro-
lcum wells AT PrahOva are strongly guarded.
The official dispatch says the number of
the casualties has been much exaggerated
and asserts that artillery was employed
only once, when a village was almost de-
stroyed
Appeals to Secretary Root.