Russian Affairs

Western Star, 30 January 1906, Page 2

Russian Affairs

It is impossible to ascertain the "' total losses, resulting days’ revolt at Moscow, as of the dead and wounded have,not been reported at the hospitals, public or private, and some of the bodies were incinerated. But a personal tour of the hospitals shows that there were 548 killed and 1,066 wounded. One hundred and seventy, four of the injured who were taken to the hospitals have since died. The troops lost nine killed* of whom two were officers and fiftyone wounded. Of the police ten were killed and fifteen wounded, Among killed or wounded were a number of children the returns generally showing that innocent persons suffered most. The final figures of casualties will closely approximate 2,« 500. The story of the discovery of great heaps of dead in the P rein a 1 district, as well as many other sen • J sational stories printed” by the lo- ’ cal Press, turn out to he untrue. , An eye-witness of the surrender of . the last batch of revolutionaries at ' the Prokharofi mills says that two of the ringleaders were shot without the semblance of trial. Gover-nor-General Doubsasoff said ; “ I , consider a repetition of , the revolt , in Moscow to be impossible. The ‘ Reds ’ have alienated the sympathy of a large portion of the Liberals, who were inclined to look with 1 something more on the idea of—an armed nprvSpjv but the events of the last few clays have filled them with horror, and have driven Liberals and even Radicals to the side of the Government wlib alone are able to preserve order. Most of the ringleaders of the revolt have either been' killed or ar rested and practically all the aims which they have been accumulating for months have been captured. No \ matter what the inclination of ■ those still at liberty may be, I am convinced that they will not again be able to precipitate a reign of terror,” According to stories in circulation at Moscow, the number of summary executions of the revolutionaries has been large. Mr Smith an Englishman, and proprietor oFA the machine works in the city which were accidently burned, says he personally, witnessed a number of executions when the “ Drujina ” garrison of the sugar factory, surrendered. The officers in command of the regular troops after a few brief questions, picked out the vie- ; tans, who were marched twenty, i paces in front of a re- M ceived a volley, and out a struggle. It is generally ed that the victims were handed-ov i er to the firing squad with the command : “ Take them to the riv- ' er,” which was tantamount to a sentence and warrant for their execution.