Show PEASANTS ARE A APPLYING TORCH Riga and Vendon Districts in the Hands of the LongSuffering Long-Suffering Insurgents Revolt Spreads to All Parts of Cour land Railway Communication Cut and Many Stations Seized Sailors Said to be Joining In the Fight Against the Government St Petersburg Tho governments latest advices from tho Baltic provinces prov-inces forwarded part of tho way from Riga by courier aro of tho most alarming character Bands of thousands thou-sands of Lottlsh peasants are roaming roam-ing tho country in tho vicinity of Riga putting tho torch to the houses on all tho estates and even threatening threaten-ing the town of Riga Itself Tho districts of Riga and Vendon are entirely In the hands of tho insurgents In-surgents The revolt Is spreading to all parts of Courland All railway communication with Riga is cut Tho insurgents have seized a number of stations on tho three railroads lendIng lend-Ing from that city and are advancing against others According to tho governments information In-formation all sailors from the commercial com-mercial steamers in tho harbor of Riga have joined tho strike Tho government claims that the troops there ore loyal though Inadequate Tho situation is also bad at Mltau where on December 11 tho troops fired on the rioters Tho government Is making little headway In crushing the telegraph strike Tho wires of tho few lines over which service has been temporarily tempor-arily restored are constantly cut and not a single wlro Is working out of St Petersburg At tho present raid weeks will elapso before tho servlco can bo really restored |