The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-06-03
ANARCHY RtARS IT'S
HEAD N PETR0GRAO
Story Ender Pctrograd Date Line At
tempted to Forecast Govern
ment's Overthrow.
BELITTLED BY REUTER-
DISPATCH FROM LONDON
Grand Duke Nicholas Reported to Be
Undert Arrcst-Russian Caucasus
Army Safd to BE Losing Ground Be
fore Turkish Advance.

Petrograd, June From amid the
ruins OF autoeracy the serpent OF Sc
dition raised its head today. II crept
rapidly through the barely finished
groundwork of the rew freedom. It
spat piliage. arson. murder. To the
tune of the down with authority" 1t
darted at the throat of the capital.
where a makeshif. government was
struggiish hard to find Its bearings.
In the throttling grip of this new
reptile of revolt. more poisonous than
any fought before. the coalition cabf-
net 10 tonight fighting is iife-and-
death battle;
Whiie bands OF anarchists, eniivened
~ ths uniforms of soldiers and sailors,
were tearing through the streets OF
Petrograd fiourishing rifles, revolvers
and grenades and indulging in an
orgytof brigandage and murder. the
telegraph brought alarming news
from far away rfiis. There in the
heart OF the Caucasus the cry OF back
to carbon has been raised. In q
flash it yiawnea apoH the people mere
what War Minister kerensky meant
when he said the other day Russia
was In danger of losing not only Ar
menia, but also the Caucasus. All
along both fronts the Turks have
been raitying of late.
| In the wake OF this news came the
most sensational information OF the
iday-Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholai-
witch has beenearrested.
Royalist outbreaks in the Caucasus
could mean but one thing-a plot to
make the idol OF the army the car.
! From his prison place at Czarskoe
where he has been peacefully planting
| potatoes, he Is to be Immediately
| transferred to the jail.
tat tate her hAH -
about midday Friday. They are grow
! ing hourly in noise, fury and numbers.
The government thus far has not
raised a finger to stop them.
Aim IL Destruction.
The rioters are trying to copy the
second phase OF the French revolu-
ton.
TT Their eli. :, !, aim is destruction and
There is nothing amateurish about
the FeveiTy of plumber, The rioters
lare led by hundreds OF experts" The
same criminals who in the joyous tu-
lmuit of the March revolt were freed
by their sympathetic brethren In the
new freedom, are now in the front
ranks of the mobs that threaten to UNI
dermine all that has been gained
since the car was overthrown.
How long the provisional govern
ment can last in the face ofrthis new
rcig OF terror Ia problematical. One
minister, A. T. Konovalof. already has
resigned. He had the portfolio OF
commerce and trade. He said he was
too much hampered by the Socialists
in the government.
Beloen4aon From Kronstatit.
London. June "A delegation from
the Kronstadt council of soldiers and
workmen's delegates has arrived hare
and been received by committee
from the Petrograd council.
The fateful decision of the work
ment's and soldiers delegates to as
sumo control of Kronstadt, the great
fortress which defends Petrograd. was
carried by vote Of 210 votes against
40, with eight of the delegates abstain
ing from voting.
The minister of Justice has notified
his colleagues of this development.
and on their instructions conlmuni-
Gated with the Kronstadt council
through the Petrograd council, with
q view to inducing the Kronstadt
council to revoke Its orders.
AnastsfiSts Ia Parable.
Petrograd dispatch 10 Reuters
companied by some soldiers and sail
ors. marched through the Nevsky
prospect and other main thorough
fares at midday on Friday, carrying
black banners inscribed: Down with
authority!'' Down with capitalists"
Long live the social revolution and
the commune!" They were armed
with Rifles. revoivers, daggers and
grenades.
The paraders stopped outside the
Kaxan cathedral and haranGuAd the
crowd Of spectators. One sailor pro-
claimed that they were only dangerous
TO capitalists and not TO the poor.
Subsequently agitators went from ono.
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