THE REVOLUTION

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1516, 27 December 1905, Page 3

THE REVOLUTION

-ffh i" »' ■ ■ W. ut "\" . Fight at loscDw a 19,000 Casualties .'V 1 '% Rebels Sip Despsrata Gcurass V"_; Sr! PETERSBURG, Pec. mber 21 troops at Moscow have stormed , ~"ind captured jit the street barricades ■fprhich t|ie rebels had constructed, :£^dirustrate'dan attempt to capture IfjtJiV'.Towa Hall and the Nicholas ;Vtyilway-station. !£ i Thfl troops also have captured the meeting-place, lafter a Israel' with revolvers and bombs on | % l|e one side and artillery on the f; other. j'y f secured stores of arms ?|&hdfatniinniiion prepared for. the \* v I London, Dflcembsr 21 'A Berlin telegram says that 400 i igs,virgPiitß and five officers and 13 have been killed in the ,S||itin§f at Moscow. The police o%£ has beeu wrecked with two bombs. ' 1 • -St. Petersburg, December 24 '■Admiral' Dnbanoff, exercising the [ powers of a dictator, has employed ); the whole of the police and the garrison to prevent meetings and IJtjisarm the people. * The original plan contemplated the commEinang of an armed rising in •St. Petersburg, with the arrest of •Count deWitte, the seizure of quickfirers, and establishing a provisional Government, The sudden arrest of the leaders at St. Petersburg forced the Moscow men to taue the lead. A band of 500 men) arm°d with ;*bbmbs, magizine rifles, and revolverSj assembled at Filler's School on vEViday night, to prepare' at dawn to .. ■ gelze the Nicholas railway terminus ■ and out railway communication with , St 1( Petersburg, storm the St&te . banks, proclaim the Czir's deposiiid form a provisional Governipa surrounded Filler's School ve the men in the meeting an jjgttrrender. When the time eaHy jjapsed the revolntion petted Ire, killing two officers, troops then commenced firing, jmbsf that were thrown forced to retreat until artillery rrived._ The artillery bome rebels then fled, and the hoisted the white flag and sur ■ed. Eight rebels were killed 2 wounded, including Filler, .20 were arrested, including lent members of the Strike ittee and< Council of Workaan'tity of arms » id a number lbs were seized, ir the office of the police' wraokod with bombs, and [ police, were killed. , "Another h<uid attacked Nicholas repulsed erected barricadeff&B defended them with rifles, re olVw^; nd bombs. fighting coitiuued all Saturday. Thejebels displayed des- ■ pefatq, courage, and, though often ; dispersed, • ooii reassembled and Ve- : sumed the figh'. Canon mowed down many, and ;• all .Saturday night the tioopt fbi oticked in the principal streets. J At dawn on Saturday the conflic? wairifcewed, the rebels employing ; gun, and the troops reply- . ing : with grape. They had received ; . a 'double allowance of vodka. ; * Though fighting is being continued itife expected' tbo Government will ; be able to strike a crushing blow at the!; extreme revolutionaries, and arrest all the revolutionary leaders. Canity Mtack a Prassisioii Czar and U.iiversal i 10 x LONDON, December 24 faring a demonstraiion in conV action with the general strike at St, Petersburg yesterday a detachment . of cavalry attacked tbo processionists . with : swords,|and after killing several dispersed the crowd. . Reut,er's St. Petersburg correspondent reports that the C?ar has finally decided to grant universal suffrage. , - The subject is to he dealt with in • two decreed *\ The Czar baa sen' a message to the Sp{?io(ogjcal 'Society of London, in r "which he fays he has the fullest sympathy rail all those in Great Britain who are showing a williiig- - ness to be friendly towards Russia. He adds that every statement attributed to him thai is contrary to a ,-love fo||peace or to a feeling of for Bri ain is absolutely false. *