Show BURNING UP THE COUNTRY st petersburg dec 25 via nen dec 27 W E smith an american resident of st petersburg who arrived here this morning from berlin reports that armed insurgents tron the baltic provinces havo crossed ed the railroad between and askoff and that the whole country Is lighted up by fires from burning residences lie says that the insurgents who are well armed and who have a battery of machine guns announce that they are annexing the region to the lithuanian republic rich landed proprietors and their families boarded the train at with nothing but they told mr smith that they were glad to escape alive A despatch from askoff in northern russia december 26 said that armed letts who crossed the line ot the ralli oad after burning and pillaging estates and tearing down images and other sacred relics in the churches retread to the eastward and that troop atrom st petersburg were pursuing them victoria B C dec 27 the Birl tish steamer bulwich dulwich has been chartered by the mexican government similarly to the british steamer ilo which recently proceeded to acapulco for coasting service on the mexican coast aa railway the bulwich will leave for acapulco in ft lew days |