The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-16
NORMAL LIFE IS
RESTORED SOON
. At TER REVOlT |
People Take Matters Into Own
Hands to Get Relief From
1ntolerable Conditions
HANDLING OF FOOD
SUPPLIES FASTENED MOVE
People Stood Three or Four
Hours With Temperature
Below Zero for Bread

London, March 16.-One OF the
most remarkable features of the Rus
sian revolution, says Reuters Petro
grad correspondent, has been the
speed with which the people have re-
sumed normal life. Order is the
watchword of the day. The cores
pondent continues:
"Still more remarkable, looking
back over the events of the past few
days, is the way in which the same
spirit of good order prevails through
the hours when the revolt was at its
height. Unorganized crowds of re.
VOTERS seemed to take pride in do
ing things regularly
commandeered Motor Cars.
For instance, in all sections OF the
city, the crowds commandeered all
motor cars on the streets, but in
every case took the names of the oc.
cupants and promised to report the
names and circumstances to the duma
committee and facilitate the return OF
the car.
"In view of the populace, the revo.
luton was practically Ibloodless. Ger
tainly, there has been some loss OF
life, but it is insignificant in popular
estimation as compared with the ire
mendous result obtained. For some
weeks past everybody in Petrograd re
allied that crisis of some kind was
approaching.
People Aroused.
|, "The temper even of the most pa
tient people in the world becomes
frayed when they are obliged to stand
three or four hours in a temperature
10 or 20 below zero waiting for bread
which often is not obtained. Potatoes
had risen to eight or nine times their
ordinary price, and other food com
modities were at a cost practically
prohibitive to the poor.
"The explanations of the voluble
new minister of agriculture, M. Rit,
itch, were not calculated either to re-
lieve the present hunger or the anx-
iety for the future"
PEOPLE SQUIRM.
He ascribed the delay in the arrival
of flour to a snow storm, as though a
snow storm i'm Russia in February were
an unparalleled phenomenon. The peo-
pie in the streets were not the only one
who squirmed under this sort of eX-
PLANTATION. The Duma leaders, as we'll,
regarded the situation as ineXcusable
and President RadziankO finally felt
justified in going to the length Of Of
fering whole-hearted exertiOn in put
ting into effect special emergency meas
ures for increasing the food supply.
PKOTAPOPOFF DETESTED.
minister of the Interior ProtOpopOff
was absent from Saturdays confer
ence on the food question. PrOtO-
popoff is wealthy manufacturer and
Il courier with reputation for de-
benair duplicity. Residing in the
Tsarskoe-Selo palace. he was reported
lately as spending large part Of his
time indulging in spiritualistic frances.
Equally detested by the parliamentary
ians and the people he never appeared
in the Duma since his ministerial ap-
pOintment.
with such administration of agricul-
ture and the interior and with the pre-
mier nonentity. it was not surpris-
ing that the food prospects were re-
garded by the members of the Duma
with the greatest alarm and even dis
may. While the Duma leaders were
the food situation the peo-
pie in the streets were getting more
and more vOluble in their protests
against the whole situation"