CIVIL WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8016, 30 December 1905, Page 2

CIVIL WAR.

THE GOVERNMENT SERIOUSLY ALARMED. jI LARGE DRAFT OF TROOPS FCffi 1 MOSCOW. CITIZENS SYMPATHISE WITJI REBELS. l MORE ARMS WANTED. J STRENGTH OF GARRISON, j AUTHORITIES SEEK REFUC&:. OFFICERS DISARMED. [ Received, 29,11.10 p.m. [ .London, December 29f The " Times' " St. Petersburg corrjg. pondent reports that the Governinwt' are seriously alarmed, and have drafted three regiments from the neighboring towns of Moscow, also the whole of the Scmcnoffaky Guards, and a portion'bf the Horse Guards from St. Petersburg. The citizens sympathise with |he robels, whose want of sufficient arms is the chief cause of their non-success.f

The garrison consists of eight rCgi. ments of foot (whoso loyalty is djs. trusted), 1 \ regiments of Dragoons, two regiments of Cossacks, a detachment of Gendarmes, two brigades of Artillery, one brigade being distrusted.

All doubtful units are confinedto barracks. The armed rebels do not exceed 15,000. The Governor-General and the authorities have taken refuge m the Kreemlin, There there are 800,000 old pattern rifles, gnns, ammunition and stores. The rebels yesterday disarmed 30 officers.

CHIEF OF SECRET POLICE MURDERED. HORRIBLE CRUELTIES ENACTED. REBELS USE THE RED CROSS. ENORMOUS CASUALTIES Recoived 29, 9.55 p.m. , St. Pejsbusbubg, December 29. The rebels forced an entrance to the residence of the Secret Police at Moscow in the nuddle of the night, gave him time to say farewell to his family, and then shot him dead in the street,

The hatred between tho Anarchists and soldiers at Moscow leads to horrible cruelties.

Somo Anarchists captured a police superintendent and two constables b,y means of an ambuscade. They wer. slashed, gashed, and mutilated before being killed. The authorities state that the Anarchists used vehicles marked with a red cross to approach and fire upon the soldiers, who thereupon fired at the ambulance and felled the, wounded. The casualties are from 9000 to 11,500 since Monday, and it is estimated that 400 peaceful citizens have been killed.

The rebels consist largely of young workmen and students, together with many girls and women.

A CONGRESS ARRESTED. Received Dec. 30, 0.24 a.m. st, PEnitsDUHe, December 29. The police at Reval arrested seventy representatives of ; rural communes, while holding a Congress without permission. ■

THE FIGHTING AT MOSCOW. POSITION CRITICAL. St. Peterskjeo, December 28. Grave disorders arc reported at Kharkoff. Tho authorities surrounded and attacked a factory where there I wore fifteen hundred revolutionaries conferring. After 5G had been killed and 180 wounded, the rest surrendered. A child approaohed close to a number of Cossacks and throw a bomb, killing several, ' The position in Moscow is more critical.

The troops are worn out, and tho officers unnerved owing to tho constant strain. The insurgents occupy outlying stations, and allow only disaffected troops of General Linievitch's Manclmrian army to enter. They then disarm them.

Barricades arc being extended round the centre of the city. Revolutionaries massacred several batches of soldiers whom they captured, resenting their loyalty. A total of 700 leading revolutionaries in St. Petersburg have been arrested.

Seventy-four factories normally employing qvop 44,000 hands, are idle. Cossacks, without provocation, inTraded a factory which had resumed. A stone was thrown, whoroupon the Cossacks fired a volley, killing and wounding thirty persons. Some drunken Cossaoks beheaded a workman. The crowd thereupon killod two Cossacks.

Roocivcd December 2'J, <J,2(> a.m. St. Pktehsbuimj, December 28. Revolutionaries, angry at the rail way men's defectum, derailed several trains, one carrying cavalry to Riga, I A hundred arrests were made at Kharkoff. Some of those arrested were manufacturing bombs. Jewish houses at Ploek were searched and quantities of firearms and poisoned pikes seized.

Agrarian outrages are reported af Taurula, where thirty estates were plundered and several fatalities occurred. Tokiu, December 28. Russian prisoners atNarashimo mu. tiuued and attempted several limes to tire the barracks.

AN IMPERIAL UfCASE. St. Pj;tkksjjui!g. December 28. An Imperial Ukase confers the Douma franchise on owners of taxable real property and taxable in. dusirial concerns, persons paying an inhabited house duty or trade tax. persons who have dwellings in their own names or are in receipt of State salaries from Zemstvos, communal authorities, or the railway adminisl tration. Proportionate .representation is granted to workinenLn faetoriej. Those fromffty up to ji jthousa'd raon may dcjwjs one worllman Relegate; those el 'Joying over a thousand one deloaMt for ctcij 'tkousaW, worknitn. Wle delegate} J& Hi' <j, ■:,*&■

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will choose the actual eleotors, The Czar directs the Douma to meet at the earliest possible date. The Czar has decreed that the State Bank must discount on holder's de« mand, sort-dated Treasury bonds not % \ exceeding d total of four hundred million roullcs. Most of them hav» been placed % Germany. The AarnSides in Moscow are nearly north of the Kremlin, form. ing thre.N parallel lines. The first covers the boulovards. Thorc are sixteen wire entangle .j ments in Bronoya-street alone. "*~^\ Trees in the boulvovards have been t ] cut down for barricades, t jj There ia a rol stronghold within ( the second linef extending from i Sadovaya-streot towards the Tverskaya district. The rebels hold the part of one street, which is barricaded with cap, tured tram cars. Others are built 6 house-gates.