Show moscow baptized in blood government professes confidence in ls ability to handle the situation st petersburg dec 2 p m with Mos cows baptism of blood the revolutionaries made good their threat to transform the strike into armed rebellion and the next 48 hours should determine whether they can marshal sufficient strength to plunge the country into an actual state ot civil war and seriously threaten the immediate downfall 0 tho government the government professes confidence that the whole attempt will tall owing to the woeful insufficiency of arms fc in posses glon of the proletariat and by reason of the loyalty of the army as a whole but its calculations might again be rudely upset A few arsenals might be seized to furnished arms or the open support of a few regiments might start a landslide on the army certainly jha shrewdest of the revolutionary leaders fully appreciate that the issue must be decided by the attitude of the army which Is yet to cast tha dye instructions have gone forth that risings must occur everywhere in order to test the troops and it a foothold can be secured it Is the intention of the revolutionists to set up a provisional government and proclaim a republic thus far reports from moscow do not clear up the vital point as to whether any of the troops there actually refused to obey commands although there are persistent rumors that they did revolutionary leaders here claim to have confirmation of a report that a grenadier brigade and come cossacks mutinies mutinied muti nied and are now locked up in their barracks while the military succeeded everywhere in driving the insurgents from their barricades in moscow saturday the defeat evidently was not a decisive one as barricades were again thrown up in dozens of places this morning and fighting was renewed before 11 tha associated creps preps understands that orders have for an butth i governments iea BureA seemingly reader this impossible ifo public or private are allowed which makes an assembly of more than five persons in a private lodging illegal the prisons and jalla are filled with leaders from the revolutionaries lution aries and agitators two caches of arma have been seized and an entire organization consisting of as tho student militia Is called ba been captured rumors were purposely circulated that a conflict would be inaugurated at a demonstration on of workmen in the prospect this afternoon proved to be unfounded the city in fact and a stranger dropping down the prospect this afternoon would have been no evidences of ferment it was bright crisp winter day and emart sleighs and equipages equi pages of the aristocracy aritt with their occupants cloaked in sables and other rich furs were out in force only the sullen faces of th crowds of strikers on the sidewalks and heavy horses and foot patrols on every block looked ominous if the plans of the revolutionaries to produce an uprising in st petersburg fall as it is believed they will an attempt certainly will ba made to terrorize the government by guerrilla warfare in which bombs will play the chief role the government having embarked in a war against the reds it 1 difficult to see how it can draw back one step the acceptance by gov gen doub aboff of moscow of the offer of the notorious reactionary prince acher batoff to organize the loyalists as a has created a shudder of horror |