Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-03-23

by Committee OF Safety-The Out
break Was Against the Pro-German
Party and Most of Its Leaders Were
Arrested or Are in Hiding.
Emperor Nicholas, of Russia, has alb
dicated and the Grand Duke Michae!
Alexandrovitch, his brother, has been
named regent.
This is the outcome of revoluticE
which was successfully effected in Pet.
rograd after three days of fighting be.
tween troops supporting the revolt and
those opposing 1t.
The fighting was not heavy and the
casualties probably did not exceed 500.
Nicholas was warned that the fate of
his dynasty depended on acquiescence.
The royal palace was besieged by rev.
olutionary troops and eventually the
emperor abdicated.
Three days of battle between troops
supporting the revolt and those oppos.
ed to 1t occurred before the revolution
was successfully effected in Petrograd.
The casualties probably did not ex-
ceed 500. It. rs reported that M. Pro.
topopoff, minister of the interior, has
been killed.
TIE palace was besieged by revolu.
tionary troops.
The duma joined hands with the
revolution, on being dissolved by the
emperor, and declared that the exist
ing government had been overthrown.
The duma resumed it's sittings after
it had sent the notification to the en-
peror Of these developments, warning
him that the fate Of the dynasty de-
pended on his acceptance of the new
order Of affairs.
The city is now quiet. Perfect or
der prevails. So far as Is known, no
foreigners were injured. All the min
listers resigned, with the exception Of
NJ. Protopopoff, who is hiding. Former
Premier Sturmer, Premier Golitzine
and the head of the secret police were
arrested. The jails were thrown open.
The Headquarters of the secret police
and several government buildings
were burned.
Events leading up to the revolution
began a week ago with street demon
strations of workingmen who quit
work as a protest against the shortage
of bread. The first two days mounted
patrols kept the crowds moving with
out resorting to violence. When or
dered to fire on the people they refus-
ed. Police were substituted and b2t.
tie occurred between them and the
troops. Regiment after regiment j2in
ed the revolters and seized arsenalS
and ether strategic points.
UDtil Sunday night there was no in.
timation that the affeir wcul grow C
the proportions of revolution. From
then until Tuesday morning almost
continuous fehting in the streets AID
throughout the city occurred, leaving
the revoluticnists in full control. The
latter are proceeding to reorgan:ze the
government.
This city mereed from q w9oks
nightmare Of revolution and figurative-
ly smiled under q brilliant food Of
sunshine after the series Of gray davs
ending with snowstorm In the even
ing. Planks were pulled down from
windows long closed. Stores. banks
and brsine ness establishments cf every
description reopened their doors for
the resumption of ordinary activities,
seemingly as confidence in the new
temDorary government gained in force.
TTuck sledges and little sleighs for
hire, the most widely appreciates con.
veyances Of Russian cities, began to
anpear again in the streets that for
six days had been absolutely void Of
any means of private transportation.
Newspapers, with the exception Of
revolutionary publications which
sprang into lie with the success of
the revolt, had fsiled to appear. Street
car service at neon bad not been re-
sumed, but it was believed that night
would see partial service.
The only visible signs Of the desper.
ate clash Of authority thai turned the
city into a battle-ground were the char.
red ruins of the jail, which are still
pouring a cloud of smoke skvward and
the remains of other police institutions
and the homes of the few individuals
who were regarded as offenders
against the rights Of the people. In
front Of other government institutions,
which apparently it was not seen fit
to destroy are piles of charred embers
showing where wreckage and docu-
ments had been dumped and consum
ed.
- After thirty-six hours Of continuous
street fighting the whole area of Pet