Show BACKBONE OF THE f STRIKE BROKEN Revolt Scow ow i s Degenerated Into Guerrilla W Warfare mare MARTIAL LAW AT ODESSA t ST PETERSBURG LEADERS ALL UNDER ARREST ft t 4 f t tt I tl f O 4 Moscow Dec revolt Is practically over OYer and the strike will willbe be called off Mond Monday Y Comparative quiet prevailed to today today day Only a few are con tinning the struggle 4 Odessa Dee Dec law has been proclaimed In this city The strike however Is nearly over 4 I 4 4 4 I 4 t 4 RA Wednesday Dec 27 6 p pm MOSCOW m via St Petersburg Dec 28 Tho Th backbone ot of the Insurrection Is broken and the uprising here is rap rapidly rapIdly idly going to pieces The revolutionists are able to keep up only a guerilla warfare but the ease with which they can move small detachments from place to place renders the task of sup suppressing suppressing pressing them slow and tedious The quarter has been cleared ot of the members of the as the fighting organization of the revo revolutionists Is caned called They have trans transferred their operations to East skia consisting of sniping from the roofs of houses occasionally throwing a bomb on advancing patrols and mak makIng makIng Ing off on the appearance of artillery Not Enough Troops All the troops of the Moscow garri garrison garrison son Including the former disaffected and the reinforce reinforcements reinforcements ments which are employed In crushing the are still sUlI insufficient to thoroughly occupy the territory won thus enabling the revolutionists to sUp slip into vacated territory as soon as the troops move on Many of the at attacks attacks tacks on patrols are seemingly made macic out of a pure spirit of bravado since they are completely futile from a stra strategic standpoint The remnants of the insurrection now lack the cohesion of ofa n a head The city of Moscow bears the picturesque picturesque esque appearance of a battlefield Of Officers Officers are everywhere seen galloping through the streets or being driven about in rapidly moving sleighs accompanied accompanied by escorts of dragoons or Cos Cossacks Cossacks sacks The stores were reopened and the inhabitants who had been cooped up for five days were venturing out for fora a breath of fresh air Barricade Demolished The troops began operations this morning at the trIumphal arch born bom bombarding barding and demolishing an Immense barricade near near the car stables ot of the Belgian company which had been built behind overturned tram cars The columns swept eastward clearIng aU all aUthe the streets off and north of the boul boulevard v rd which h separated the bat from the center of the city Barricades were not so numerous in inthis inthis this regIon as was the CAse durIng yes yesterdays yesterdays fighting and the troops en enCountered encountered Countered less opposition A corre correspondent correspondent of the Associated Press nc ac Companied one of the columns for an hour durIng which time the soldiers of the nowhere attempted to hold the barrIcades After tiring firing a few shots they invariably scampered off Sometimes the artillery fired at a barricade Jut ut the defenses were re taken without firIng a shot A lumber yard in the vicinity offered ma material material for thirty barricades Red flags figs were still defiantly floating over some of the barriers but throughout the dis district district the correspondent saw neither or soldiers It was like a deserted field over which the tide of battle had swept Tried to Capture Ammunition During the morning the revolution several times attempted to Inter pt convoys of ammunition sent from th arsenal to fo the troops whose hose supply I 0 I O rounds per man WAS running luw In one case they almost succeed succeeded ed d after which the escorts of the con conVOYS convoys VOYS were doubled The boldest exploit to the credit of th the revolutionists was an attack on the dinner fourth Grenadiers which was being trundled out in the wheeled camp amp kitchens used in the Russian army A detachment of the aided b by sympathizers in the nE neighbor neighborhood hood swooped down on the corporals guards forming the escort The drIvers of the wheeled kItchens and the escort made a valiant defense as bullets rat rattled d on the boilers bollers and cauldrons puncturing puncturing turing a big soup pot At that june junc juncture ture a sQuadron of dragoons galloped up and drove off the assailants and the camp kitchens wore were rescued but the grenadiers lost theIr dInner Made Daring Attack Last night a com company any of soldiers who are said to be paid 20 cents per day made a darIng Incursion Into the heart ot of the city occupying Hunters Row un under dr der the walls of the Kremlin and sud suddenly denly denb opening fire on the Infantry and artillery camping In Theatre square The guard stationed at the Hotel Met where Governor General Dou bassoff is quartered replied and vol volley volley ley after volley was exchanged across s the square The regular troops in the absence of their officers were thrown Into confusion by the surprise attack and fired wildly until the officers rushed out ot of the hotel and led a charge harge across the tho square whereupon the soldiers hastily do de decamped camped The regulars thereafter were most nervous The correspondent re returning returning turning later to the Hotel on the opposite side of tIle lie square was fired upon At midnIght the guests of this hotel were routed out of bed the commander of the troops having sent word that he intended to open with artillery on Hunters Row which had been reoccupied by the and that the hotel being almost In the line ot of fire might suffer sutter |