THE ARMIES' ADHESION.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 March 1917, Page 5

THE ARMIES' ADHESION.

TO NEtV GOVERNMENT. . A REMARKABLE INCIDENT. Received March 10, S p.m. Pctrogi-iHI, March 10. Ocncr.-.l Russky and ('c-neral Brusiloff telegraphed M. Rodzianko notifving the adhesion of their armies to liie'new regime. There was a remarkable incident in the street fighting in the garden facing Kazan Cathedral, which was 'crowded with civilians. A body ov Cossacks came up. All the civilians knelt. The Cossacks did not fire. About a imiirtvcd were killed and wounded on Monday, when the guards attempted to clear the streets. The crowd bore no animosity toward the soldiers. By Tuesday four-fifths of the city was in the hands of the rebels. Moreover, large numbers of the inhabitants were armed with rifles, revolvers, ;ind swords. The mobs successively stormed all the police stations, and carefully destroyed all paws, releasing prisoners. The Kged wife of a Minister of the Imperial Court was carried out of her burning homo' fainting. Her daughter, a hunchback, rushed out, carrying a favorite dog. A drunken mob killed the dog and ill-treated the crippled girl. Both ladies were eventually saved. Prince Frederick was in attendance with the Czar at the time. Many political police were killed. Others were dragged from their hidingplaces and lodged in dark cells in the fortress ot St. Peter and St. Paul. Many released prisoner.-, are partaking in the reorganisation of the Government. ANTI-GERMAN OBJECT. SACKING OF PRO-GERMAN PROPERTY. Received March 17, 5.5 p.m. Petrograd, March 10. The arrested Ministers are comfortable and safe at the Taurida Palace. After Prince Galitzin informed M. Rodzianko that he had resigned from the presidency of the Imperial Council, the workmen's delegates issued a manifesto inviting the troops and factories to choose representatives to confer with the Council at Taurida Palace, on the basis of one representative for each battalion or each thousand workmen, factories employing less than a thousand hands sending one representative each. An impressive scene was witnessed on the arrival of the Preob-ajensky Guards, with their colonel and officers," at Taurida Palace. All the men, who were of giant stature, were four deep for the whole length of the enormous Caterine Hall, where M. Rodzianko greeted them. Nicholls station and Tharskoe station are now ablaze.

The guards manning the Winter Palace were engaged in a long and desperate struggle to save it from assault. Many soldiers fighting on behalf of the Court party did so believing the revolt was caused by Germans But for this ignorance they would have joined the rebels. By Tuesday the whole garrison had gone over to the Provisional Government. An active hunt was continued for the police, who were hidden in garrets by tho previous ordcis of M. Protopopoff, and where they spasmodically indulged in rifle and machine-gun sniping. One proof of the anti-German object of the revolution was the destruction and sacking of Baron Frederick's beautiful patyce in Pochstanskaya. Thia was a deplorable incident. A HUGE POLICE FOr'cE.

ORGANISED TO COWE POPULACE. jALL MALT WITH OR IN HiniNO. Times Serviee. Received Marcli IT, 8.5 p.m. London, March 18. Out of the huge police force which M ProtopopofF organised to drown Petrograd with Wood only four thousand were captured or killed. The rest are in hiding, abandoning hope. Sniping therefore has almost ceased. . Petrograd, March 10. All highly placed personages suspected of German proclivities, or bearing German names, are being systematically arrested. Crowds lengthily hunted for the Countess of Klinmiclia'el, who is suspected of being a ■ spy. They found her in the Chinese Embassy and arrested her. Baron Stokeberg fired on soldiers from a front window, and he was summarily executed. Petrograd is absolutely quiet, and is under heavy snow. The Government has requisitioned all lorries and cars for food distribution. Trains of flour are regularly arriving. The greatest difficulty is baking bread and encouraging the shopkeepers to remain open. BRITISH LABOR'S SYMPATHY. APPEAL TO MEN IN THE TRENCHES Received March 18, 5.5 p.m. London, Marcli 17. The Press Bureau reports that the Labor leaders, including Messrs. Henderson, Hodge, Barnes, and Brace, telegraphed to the Russian Labor leaders that organised labor in Britain was watching with the deepest sympathy the efforts of the Russian people to get rid of the reactionary elements which were impeding the advance to victory. Laoor in Britain and France had long realised that Germany's despotism must bo overthrown in order to open the way for the free and peaceful development of the nations. It was this which had inspired them to unprecedented efforts am) sacrifices, and they confidently anti- \ cipate the of Russian Labor jin emphasising that any remission of I'iluit will be disastrous to their eouirniM in the treiibhfe and to the oonun/>»