The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-05
new REGIME IS
AGAIN DOMINANT
IN RUSS CAPITAL
All Night Conference SmOOths
Out Differences.
Soldiers Committee Approves
Pledge to Allies.
$4,000 IN MOB AT PALACE
$4,000 IN MOB At PALACE
Chaos Near Supremacy, but
Govt Finally Wins.
Ministry viii Resign Rather
Than Break Allies Pledge.
BY WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD.

Petrograd, via. London, May s.
After two days of cheering, mutterinG
jostling mobs surging back and forth
in demonstrations that at times ap-
preached perilously near to organized
riots. the duma provisional govern
ment today apparently succeeded in
re-esta blishing itself. An all night
meeting last night apparently smooth
ed out many differences between the
duma leaders and the soldiers and
wOrkmen's delegates. Formal report
of these deliberations has not been
made, but the attitude of representa-
tives on both sides indicated greater
unity.
At the headqua rters of the soldiers
and workmen's committee today it was
Informally stated that an AMIGA BILE ad-
juStment had been reached with the
duma leaders and that the executive
committee by two to one vote had
approved the governments pledges.
Included in these pledges, it was re-
ported, was one to announce publicly
the reasons behind the provisional
governments announcement on May
Day as to Russia S aims in the war.
Soldiers delegates said today the full
text of this explanation had been read
to the executive committee and ap-
proved by them.
Sober Heads Prevail
In the meantime the temper of the
ceptibly changed. Yells and impreca-
tons against the ministers have been
succeeded by cheers for democratic
Russia. Sober heads in the thrOngs
apparently succeeded in bringing
home to the demonstrators the neces-
sity for continuance of complete
form of government government
that would have been dissolved for
rule of the mob if the crowds de-
mands for resignation of various min
listers had succeeded.
Twenty-Five thousand persons were
damned in the streets around the
Marinsky palace all day Thursday and
thursday night 1t was q turbulent,
shouting mob. Many clashes occurred
among its members. Several shots
We're fired No attempt was made to
Keep order. Two persons were re-
ported struck by bullets.
Radicals Sway Mob.
The crowds kept ceaseless vigil
around the building in which the SOL
dlers and workmen's delegates were
meeting. Excited knots gathered
around various orators. Cheers for
the peoples rule were mixed with
roars of applause greeting demands
Tor wholesale designations of the pres
ent government leaders
But thru all the disorder there ran
tho instructive caution against aiding
Germany by disrupting Russla's
forces. Extremist agitators who
sought to urge complete brotherhood
with German soldiers were howled
down. Nicholas Lenin. now recog-
niZed as a German-influenced agitator,
was literally swept away when he
tried to speak. The crowd simply
would not let him talk. Before long
the crowds temper had subtly
changed into a patriotic demonstra ton
for Russia at any cost, and this SEN
ument was recognized and fostered by
friends of the provisional leaders who
Al
again.
Ma Score; Treaties.
The whole gist of the orators re-
marks seemed to be that the popnl1ce
was unwilling to support any min
iStry which would enter into secret
treaties. Constant demand that the
present ministers make public all COM
racts into which they had entered or
intended entering-or else resign -
was voiced. The ministers have
frankly made reply they viii resign
rather than break Russia's pledge
with the allies
We are fighting an offensive and
not a defensive war; was a reiterat-
ed Try.
of the crowd when the ministry met
at night in joint session with the ex
ecutive council of the soldiers and
workmen's delegates. The mobs de-
mands had by this time been changed
into appeals for certain policies by the
ministers.
Duma Leaders Address Mob.
THE Russian people have been bur
dened with heritage of internal and
international evils; they have cleaned
out the former-now they must clean
out the latter" was one typical speech
by one of the crowds orators
"Miliulloff knows all about secret
treaties-he must publish them" was
another utterance greeted with wild
acclaim.
When the impromptu orators in the
crowd had worn themselves out, the
mob began yelling for speeches from
the duma leaders. Their demands, in
a vast chorus of clar1or. penetrated to
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