The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-30
SLAV MASSES
ARE FOR WAR
Peoples Committee Is for
Continuance of Hos
tilities
KAISER BLAMED FOR
WORLD CONFLICT
Struggle Now Is Between
Imperialism and De-
mocracy

Petrograd, via London, March Ca
declaration in support of the war has
been issued by committee OF working
men. soldiers and deputies and apparent
ily represents the sober conclusion which
the masses of the population have
reached, after being swayed this way
and that by the turbulent currents and
cross-curTents which swept through the
country in the first days of the revolu-
ton. This conclusion is that liberty and
victory over the Germans are insep-
arabic and that the responsibility for
| plunging Europe into war rests on the
Ilohenzolern family and Prussian impe-
realistic ambitions
The tendency is TO regard the war no
longer as a struggle between nations, but
between the new spirit of democracy and
the old spirit Of imperialism. The peo-
Pile are eagerly DESTROYS OF peace, but
are ready to devote redoubled energy to
war if that is the only way of achieving
it. Even the dissentient voice of the
extreme Socialist elements, which at first
openly declared itself against war and
counselled the soldiers to lay down their
arms, has been drowned in the universal
cry that the struggle must continue
The result of this broader understand
ing of the object for which the country
is fighting has been to bring the ex-
treme radicals into unison with the rest
of the country. Reassuring reports of
the visit of Minister of War Guchkoff to
the front continue to be received. Every
where the army responded with the
greatest enthusiasm to his appeals and
declared itself ready to continue. lighting
until the end The same spirit Is mani
fest in Petrograd. where there are daily !
professions OF troops carrying banners
inscribed: Liberty and Victory"
The official organ of the council of |
deputies of workmen and soldiers de- |
votes leader in its Tuesdays issue to
the necessity OF vigorously carrying on
the war against Germany saying:
Russia, although disturbed by revolu-
tion, must not give the Hohcnzollerns
and their partisans any ground TO be-
lieve that she will be an easy prey to
the German monarchy. We must let
them know that revolutionary Russia
will devote all its forces to the ac-
of victory
The peasants throughout the country
are Systematically organizing militia to
replace the old police They are also
new local authorities and
communal assemblies.
The idea of equal rights for women Is
beginning to gain weight. In the gov
'rnment Of Ekaterinoslav the peasants
rave sent women deputies to the gov
'rnment executive committee. The
yorkmen in all the factories engaged in
manufacturing for the national defense
ave decided to renounce for the period
# the war one of the fundamental items
+ the labor program, namely. the eight
our day, it is announced here semi
fiicially.
The decision was taken in view OF the
ecessity of augmenting the output of
lunitions
An appeal of the workmen of the Ger
nan and Austrian coalition to rise
gainst the imperial authority and to
stablish their freedom, says the Pet
,grad Telegraph agency 1.-THE Russian
fficial news agency was launched at
lass meeting of workmen, soldiers and
equities held yesterday at the Duma.
he appeal was directed to the prole-
lriat of the whole world, but it special
: designates the central powers. urging
lie workmen of those countries "to
lrow off the yoke of autocratic rule as
lie Russian people have overthrown the
nperial autocrat, and refuse to serve
niger as an instrument in the hands OF
ngs. capitalists and bankers" BY
lited effort, the appeal declares, eve
n stop this awful murder which is the
anne of humanity"
The government has granted the re.
Test of Maria Feodorevna, the former
wager empress of Russia and the
other of the deposed emperor to reside
Livadis, in the Crimea.