Show MOSCOW ST LIKE A artillery Is sweeping doyn barricades and mouses that shelter the revolutionary Bands Martial law in odessa moscoe wednesday dec 27 6 pm vla st petersburg dec 28 the backbone of the insurrection Is broken and the uprising here Is rapidly going to pieces but the ease with which they can move small detachments from place to place renders the task of suppressing them slow and tedious the Bruan naya quarter has been cleared of the members of the druzina Dru jina as the fighting organization of the revolutionists Is called they have trans terrea their operations to east la consisting principally sniping from the roofs of houses occasionally throwing a bomb on advancing patrols and making off on the appearance of artillery all the troops of the moscow including the former disaffected grenadiers grena diers and the reinforcements which are employed in crushing the revolutionists are still insufficient to thoroughly occupy the territory won thus enabling the revolutionists to slip into vacated territory so soon as the troops move on many of the attacks on patrols are seemingly made out of a pure spirit of bravado since they are completely futile from a strategic standpoint the remnants of the insurrection now lack cohesion or a head the city of moscow bears the picturesque tur esque appearance of a battlefield officers are everywhere seen galloping through the streets or being driven about in rapidly moving sleighs accompanied compa nied by escorts of dragoons or cossacks the stores were reopened and the Inhabitants who had been cooped up lot five days were venturing out tor a breath af fresh air itie troops began operations this rooming at the triumphal arch bombarding and demolishing an immense barricade car stables of the belgian company which had been built behind overturned tram cars slowly pivoting from the arch the columns swept eastward clearing all the streets off la and north 0 the boulevard bou levarl which separated the battle ground from the center of the falty barricades were not so numerous in this region as was the case during yesterdays fighting and the trompa encountered less opposition A correspondent of the associated press accompanied compa nied one of the columns tor an hour during which time the soldiers of uie druzina Dru jina attempted to hold the barricades barric adea after firing a few shots they invariably scampered off some times the artillery fired at a barricade but usually the defenses were taken without firing a shot the work of destroying the entanglements entangle ments and burning the material from which they were constructed was slow occasionally sio nally when the troops were fired up from roofs the houses were bombarded but the occupants had ample time to escape the operations opera tiona of the troops in the Brun naza district disclosed many interesting te traces of yesterdays fight ang which brought the walls of a hundred houses tumbling about the ears of their defenders the prok barff cotton mill the headquarters of fihe druzina Dru jina and many other houses for a distance of a mile between the boulevard and the triumphal arch were in ruins every estreet tributary of the la boulevard was stoutly barricades barricaded barrica ded as many as seven being counted within two hundred yards of a single street these evidently formed the first line of defense and the net work of streets behind were barricades barricaded barrica ded at intervals these barricades were left standing the troops having strategically made a circuit to an apen plain northwest of the city which enabled them to take the revolutionists in the rear compelling the evacuation of the position practically without loss as the revolutionists were unable to fight the artillery with revolvers and they possessed few rifles house after bouse showed yawning chasms produced by shells the spirit shops and cheap lodging bouses occupied by the student revolutionists were the principal the barricades though they could not be defended artillery were well constructed of telegraph poles fences heavy doors iron courtyard gates and signs mi m terraced ter laced with wire A lumber yard in the vicinity furnished material for thirty barricades hed flags were fitall defiantly floating over some of the barriers but throughout the district the correspondent saw neither nor soldiers it was like deserted field over which the tide of battle bad swept during the morning the revolutionists several times attempted to intercept convoys of ammunition sent from the arsenal to the troops whose supply of rounds per man waa running case they almost succeeded low in one atter which the escorts of the convoys were doubled the boldest exploit to the credit of revolutionists was an attack on the grenadiers Grena diers the fourth the dinner of trundled out in the which was being used in the wheeled camp kitchens of the detachment army A in aided by sympathizers swooped down on neighborhood the the escort corporals guard forming the kitchens the drivers of the wheeled defense and the escort made a valiant boilers the rattled on as bullets big a and cauldrons caul drons puncturing that juncture a squadron soup pot at off droop and galloped up of dragoons kitchens the and the camp i were rescued but the grenadiers grena diers lost their dinner last night a company of soldiers who are said fo be paid twenty cents per day made a daring incursion into the heart of the city occupying alada hunters row under the walls of the kremlin and suddenly opening fire on the infantry and artillery camping in theater square the guard stationed at the hotel where governor general Dou bashoff is quartered replied and volley after volley was exchanged across the square the regular troops in the absence of their officers were thrown into confusion by the surprise attack and fired widely until the officers rushed out of the hotel and led a charge across the square whereupon the soldiers hastily de camped |