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Show , I1FTY iS IDJLETC OK 0UHO ! when m mmw mm mi nm m i ' crowd or workmen it in to Government Expects to Be Able toCrush the Revolt at Moscow Within a Few Days; Small Number of Troops Are f Available at Present. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 27. Minor collisions between the itroops and strikers, of whom there are almost 50,000 still out, are i taking place constantly in St. Petersburg. Cossack patrols are vHjJrging and dispersing workmen whenever they collect. The most r Serious affairs occurred at the Narva gate and on the Moika canal, , f In which fifty persons were killed or wounded. "Automatic guns f c have been mounted on the bridge over the Fontanka canal, from . iwhich they can sweep the Nevsky prospect in either direction and rJsftboth ways of the canal. The battery is inclosed in a collapsible shetHn order to not attract too much attention. MOSCOW, Dec. 27, 3 p. m. The cannonading continues, and the list of casualties is swelling. The revolutionists are operating V, in three sections. There are about 1000 of them Jn each section. They are all armed with revolvers and rifles. . The women who .are Iarticipating in the fighting are guilty of the; worst cruelties. forced, put down the outbreak mercilessly. merci-lessly. . Delegates Are Captured. The members of the so-called provincial provin-cial Government, composed of twenty-two twenty-two delegates which had been sitting there, were captured early In the day and later when the red flag was raised and barricade war erected around, the Helfrich engine works' which armed revolutionists were holding, cannon were brought up and the revolutionists were given ten minutes in which to surrender." sur-render." They then sent out an emissary who was seized by the military commander, who then gave the command to the artillery ar-tillery to open fire on the works, which were literally battered down over the heads of the revolutionists. The latter, lat-ter, although unable to make a defense, held out until three-quarters of their number were killed or wounded, when the remnant, 137 men, surrendered. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 27, 1:25 p. m. An inspired statement in the Slovo today says the Government expects the revolt at Moscow to be completely crushed within four days. The duration dura-tion of the rising Is explained by .the small number of troops available. Many of -the soldiers necessarily were- employed em-ployed in guarding . the Government buildings, leaving a " comparatively small number available to cope with the Insurgents over the wide area of the disturbance. Fresh troops have now arrived and the end is said to be near. The Slovo says:. "The grenadiers have wiped out the stain on their honor with blood, fighting fight-ing in the front ranks at their own re- quest" 1 Bloodshed Is Frightful. From an Independent source the Slovo Slo-vo declares It has learned that the bloodshed at Moscow is frightful and that the casualties will reach 15,000. and that about 100 Red Cross workers have been dispatched from St. Petersburg Peters-burg to Moscow to aid in caring for the wounded. The paper also says it has learned that the arms of the .revolutionists .revolu-tionists mostly came from Germany and Belgium, whence they were shipped "to England, trans-shipped there and smuggled into Russia through Finland anld the Baltic provinces. . .. Continuing, the Slovo remarks: p When our plenipotentiary sought to pf event the sailing of these vessels i th rough the Consuls, the latter refused toAact as all the vessels flew foreign j flags." V, Issue Mot Decided. - - The Information of other papers is f that while admitting that the revolutionists revolu-tionists are showing signs of exhaustion, exhaus-tion, they do not regard the issue as decided. de-cided. The Molva (Russ), which reappeared reap-peared today, fans the flames by holding hold-ing out encouragement of the success of the revolt. The paper declares that the area of the fighting is increasing instead in-stead of diminishing and asserts that the insurgents are holding six miles of barricades. "Even if the revolt fails now." the Molva says, "It will be recommenced in January or February." Havs Not Giyen Up Hope. This also Is the view of the revolutionists revolu-tionists here, who, however, have not . given up hope of success. In any case they assert they can in. the meantime keep the Government engaged in suppressing sup-pressing continual uprisings from place to place, believing that each city and town should have Its baptism of blood as a preparation for the final upheaval. In spite of the bad prospects here the leaders of the revolutionists are continuing con-tinuing their desperate efforts to bring on a general conflict. At Kharkoff yesterday yes-terday the flag of armed revolt was raised, but according to reports the ttur. which hml hpn largely reln- |