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THE RUSSIAN CRISIS. SHOCKING LOSS OF LIFE AT MOSCOW FIGHTING STOPPED FOR ONE DAY. GOVERNMENT SENDING TROOPS TO THE CITY, TREASURY FUNDS RAIDED. [PIIESS ASSOCIATION.] LONDON; 29th December.
The St. Petersburg correspondent of The Times reports that tho Government is soriously alarmed, and has drafted three regiments from neighbouring towns tp Moscow, albo the whole of the Semenoffsky Guards and a portion of tho Horse Guard; from St. Petersburg. The citizens of Moscow are sympathetic with the rebels, whoso want of sufficient arms is the chief cause of their non-suc-coss. The troops have achieved no important success. The garrison consists of eight regiments of foot, whose loyalty is dis- , trusted, one and a half regiments of Dragoons, two regiments of Cossacks, a detachment of Gendarmes, and two brigades of artillery. One brigade of artillery is All doubtful units are confined in barracks. ' The armed rebels do not exceed fifteen 1 thousand. The Governor-General and other authorities have taken refuge in the Kremlin, where eight hundred thousand old pattern rifles, gnns, and ammunition are stored. The rebels yesterday disarmed thirty officers. The casualties at Moscow Eince Monday are estimated at from nine thousand to eleven thousand five hundred. It is estimated that- four hundred~peace. ful citizens have been killed. The rebels consist largely of young workmen and students, but there are many girls and women among them. Rebels forced an entrance into the residence of the Chief of the Secret Police at Moscow in the middle of tho night, gave him time to cay farewell to his family, and then shot him dead in the street. The hatred between anarchists and soldiers at Moscow has led to horrible cruelties. Anarohists captured a police superintendent and two constables by means of an ambuscade, and slashed, gashed, and mutilated them before killing them. The authorities state that anarchists used vehicles marked with the Red Cross to approach and fir© upon the soldiers. Tho latter thereupon fired at an ambulance filled with wounded. A DAY'S OTISTiCE. A THOUSAND UNIDENTIFIED CORPSES. A CONDITIONAL OFFER TO SURRENDER. TROOPS SUPPLIED WITH VODKA. (Received Docember 30, 8.28 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 29th Dec. Better reports hay© been received from Moscow regarding tho position of affairs in that city. Owing largely to the number of arrests and fatalities amongst the revolutionary leaders, the revolutionists announce a day's armistice. A thousand corpses which cannot be identified have been collected in the Lutchoff quarter of tho city. The insurgents in the Pryessnya quarter offer to surrender if they are not punished. The troops have received an unstinted supply of vodka. Tho Governor has ordered them to fire on all knots of pedestrians, volunteers, and Red Cross detachments. A number of sappers helped the insurgents in building barricades. REINFORCEMENTS STOPPED. (Received December 30, 8.39 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 29th Dec. The blowing up of a bridge and other damage stopped reinforcements from St. Petersburg reaching Moscow. A BIG HAUL TREASURY RAIDED. (Received December 30, 7.32 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG,. 29th Dec. Rebels raided the Treasury m Wysokil Mayowiecke, in the government of Loinza (Russian 'Poland), dynamited a safe, capturing three hundred thousand paper roubles, twenty thousand roubles" in gold, and one hundred and sixty thousand in silver. The raiders escaped with their booty. RUSSIAN REFUGEES. (Received December 30, 8.39 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 29th Dec. Theie are two hundred thousand Russian refugees, many of whom are destitute, in Germany, . and sixty thousand Russian Jews, including twenty thousand children, in Austria. THE OUTBREAK IN THE BALTIC PROVINCES. SEVERE FIGHTING. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE KILLED. (Received December 30, 8.30 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 29th Dec, The crisis in the Baltic pi evinces led to a sharp exchange of notes between Germany and Russia. Severe fighting is proceeding at Rosfcdff and Vilffla- ""
AN INTERRUPTED CONGRESS. ST. PETERSBURG-, 29th Dec. The police at Reval arrested seventy representatives of rural Communes, who were holding a congress without permission. INSURGENTS CAPTURED. (Received December 30, 11.22 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 29th Dec. A fourth of the insurgents at Reval have been captured. General Slackelberg has been sent to operate against them.
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Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 155, 30 December 1905, Page 5
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