New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-31
PACIFYING RUMANIA.
TROOPS ROUT PEASANTS.
Order Being Generally Restored
artillery Freely Used.

Bucharest. March 3O-The official report is
sued this evening shows continued Improvement
in the situation. Slight outbreaks are still be-
ing reported. but the troops everywhere have
the upper hand.
Field guns loaded with shrapnel, according TO
official reports. were the chief cause Of the de-
feat Of the peasants. whose arms were 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 great execution with long
pronged forks and scytho blades strapped TO
long poles but the slaughter caused by artillery
appears TO be terrifying them into submission.
In the district OF Vlashica, whers the outbreak
was particularly serious. large numbers OF in
surgents have surrendered and have denounced
their leaders to the authorities. with the result
that many of the latter have been arrested
The government hopes that with the leaders in
jail the undisciplined bands will soon abandon
the field
The self-styed generals usually turn out 10
be country schoolmasters and village priests
Numbers OF women are fighting in the insur-
gent ranks. and many Of them have been found
among the killed side by side with their hus-
bands. sons and brothers.
Details OF the attack made by the peasants
on Galatz show that a pitched battle was fought
strong. began the assault at midnight carried
the outer earthworks by storm and captured a
suburb which they set on fire after pilIaging
it. Three battalons Of infantry attempted to
stem the peasants entry into the city, but the
fork and scythe armed rustics fought desper-
atey hand TO hand. and had almost routed
the troops when the Governor ordered field guns
loaded with grapeshOt to be brought into ac-
ton. The rebels then wavered and fed The
fire Of the guns wrought great loss Of life among
the retreating masses
A number Of conflicts between troops and
marauders continue 20 be reported. Two thou
sand insurgents at Gorj are said 20 have been
quieted by the assurances OF the authorities,
without resort 70 force. A hundred ana nrty
moro rioters have been wounded at Baileschtchi.
and several OF them have since died
Artillery was used at Cucuesti ValOelaIe and
elsewhere and in some instances whole villages
are said to have been destroyed by nine-inch
shells.
The agitation has spread to the provinces adj
1acent 20 the Carpathian Mountains which
hitherto have been quiet Much plundering and
fncendianism have occurred at farms and IN
isolated hamlets Troops are in pursuit OF the
marauders.
A number OF important land owners have Pc
tstioned the government to postpone for ons
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and the payment Of private debts incurred
through the destruction Of crops. They further
ask the state 20 grant compensation for the
crops and estates destroyed by the rioters
With the object Of preventing as Ear as pos
sible the frGternizing Of troops ana peasants
belonging 20 the same districts, and also the
possibility OF lighting between relatives belong
ing TO the opposing forces IN the disturbed dis
tricts. the Moldavian troops belonging 70 the
4th Army Corps have been transferred to Little
WalIaehia, while the Wallaehian troops at
tached to the 1st Army Corps have been detailed
for duty In Moldavia-