Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-16
'CzAR OVERTHROWN
 BY RUSSIAN REVOLT
lContlnned Ffom Paee Onel

| 1ains of other police institutions and
 Hc homes of the few individuals who were regarded as offenders against ! the rights of thc people.
 Tn front of other government insti- ! 'utions, which apparently it Was not seen it t0 destroy. are piles of charr- | ed embers showing where wreckage md documents had been dumped and ] consumed.
 Defense Weak
 The defenders of the old regime | ut up last feeble defense last night n the roofs of the wrecked Astoria ! 7;ilitary hotel and St Tsaar's Cathe- ' 1ral. facing on two sides of the same square They soon were silenced by he sharpshoOters of the revolutionary I 7rmy.
 With the rcupening of bread, sugar, 'ea and meat shops. lines of women with shopping bags and baskets. aften extending tO the length of block, were formed to replenish stores eN- Hausted by tho long siege. The most 0henominal feature of the revolution ''as been the swift and orderly tran 'ition whereby the control of the city Hassed from the regime of the old government into the hands of It's op- 1Onents. Until Sunday disorders in the streets, which never went beyond 1uiet gatherings or mild demonstra- lions could not properly be termed a evolution at all.
 After 36 hours of continuous street fighting. the whole area of Petrograd was in the hands of the revOlutiOnists 'n Tuesday noon. Regiments called nut to disperse street crowds that were clamOring for bread refused to ire on the people. but mutinied kill ing their officers in many cases and joined the swelling ranks of the in surgents.
 With the exception of a Finnish 'aOiment which took possession of the admiralty building on the Neya md kept up desultory rife and ma chine gun fire. the last regiment to remain loyal to the government had capitulated after a sustained battle on the Morskaya and made no further resistance 10 the revolutionists who controlled the entire city. The police Tad disappeared from the streets.
 ouma Sounds emperor's Doom
 The president of the Duma, Michael V. Rodzianko, was the leading figure among the deputies who unanimously decided to oppose the imperial order for dissolution of the house. They continued their sessions and M. Rod iankO informed the emperor, then at ha front. that the hour had struck when the will of the people must pre- vail. Even the imperial council real ized the gravity of the situation and 'dded its appeal to that of the Duma hat the emperor should take steps to i've the people policy and govern rent in accordance with their desires nd in order that there should be no interference with carrying on the -ar t0 2 victorious ending.
 New Government Rises
 The emperor hastened back from 'ie front only to find that the revo- Itie, bad been successful and that .aw government was in control. The a"nDTess, who, it is alleged, has been 'nfiuential in the councils opposed to 70 wishes of the people. is reported
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 Revolt Started in Fun
 AitbOush considerable fighting took lace. it is not believed the casualties re large.
 TO early period of the uprising bore the character rather of a mock revolution staged for an immense au- 7ience. Cossacks charging down the street did so in a half hearted fashion plainly without malice or intent to harm the crowds that they playfully dispersed. The troops exchanged good natured raillery with the work ingmen and women and as they rode were cheered by the people.
 Long lines of soldiers stationed in dramatic attitudes across Neivsky Prospect, with the guns pointed at an imaginary foe. appeared to be taking part in a realistic tableau. Machine guns firing blank cartridges seemed to add another realistic touch to a tremendous theatric production which was using the whole city as a stage.
 Troops Battle Troops
 Regiments had received an order from the commandant to fire upon persons assembled in the street This caused sensation in the troops who did not understand why they should be compelled to take violent meas ures against fellow citizens, whose chief offense was that they were hun gry and were asking the government to supply bread. Several regiments deserted and a pitched battle began between troops who stood with the government and those who. refusing to obey orders. had mutinied. A long night battle occurred between muti- nous regiments and the police imme- diately in front of the historic church built over the spot where Alexander II was killed by bomb. The police finally fled to roof tops all over the city and were seen no more in the streets during the entire term of the fighting.
 Still, on Monday morning, the gov ernment troops appeared ocOntrol all the principal squares of the city. Then came a period when it was i'm nossible to distinguish one side from the other. There was no definite line between the factions. The turning point appeared to come about three o'clock in the afternoon. For two hours the opposing regiments passive