The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-16

these cities.
the police-offered last feeble de-
fence last night from the roofs of the
wrecked Astoria Military Hotel and
st Isaac's Cathedral, facing on two
sides Of the same square. They We're
silenced by the sharpshoo ters OF the
new authority.
With the reopening of bread, sugar,
tea and meat shops, queues OF women
with shopping bags and baskets lined
up often to the length Of a block to
replenish stores exhausted by the long
siege. The most phenomenal feature
of the revolution has been the swift
and orderly transition whereby the
control of the city passed from the
regime of the old government into the
hands Of its opponents.
Troops Join Revolution.
After So hours of continuous street
fighting the whole area of Petrograd
was on Tuesday noon in the hands Of
the revo11Jtionists. Regiments called
out to disperse street crowds which
were clamoring for bread refused to
fire upon the people, mutinied, Staying
their officers in many cases, and Joined
With the exception OF a Finnish reg
iment which took possession Of the
Admiralty building on the Neva and
kept UP desultory rifle and machine
gun fire, the last regiments loyal to
the. government had capitulaAed after
"a sustained battle on the Morsl1ays
and made no further resistance to the
revofutionists, who controlled the en-
tire city.
The police had disappeared from the
streets, which were patrol1ed by au-
tom0M1est packed with soldiers and
students, who We're wildly cheered by
the crowds as thNV sped by.
The government\was declared to be
|overthrown by the Dmna leaders, who
met in the Maveritchislky Palace after
the regular session had been adj
journed by imperial ukase. In q tel
egram 10 the Emperor the popular
representatives, declared that spe-
cial committee composed OF the lead
ers OF the various parties in the Duma
would submit a. list OF names for the
new, Cabinet
The imperial ukase dissolving the
Dr1ma on March II reads as follows:
The sittfngs OF the Duma are ad-
5ourned owing to extraordinary cir
cuInstances until further notice. They
will be resumed not later than April. .
On Monday the Duma members, ex-
cept the members of the party of the
Right, met in executive session, not
withstanding the dissolution order.
The result was q virtually unanimous
vote to place the Durna squarely on
the side Of the revolution and to au-
thorize the Executive Council of that
body to declare the present govern
ment overthrown and organize pro-
visionar government. President Rod.
zianko, who presided. sent Telegram,
to the Emperor informing hira Of tho
developments and calling on him to
listen to the voice Of the people.
1.-THE hour has struck" he said.
when the will Of the people must
prevail"
The following were named as the
'sstaff Of the temporary government" /:
Michael V. Rodzianko. N. v. Mex
rasoff, AZ I. Konovaloff, L. l. Dmitru.
koff, A. F. Kerensky. M. S Pshke fdze,
v. v. Shulgin, S. I. Shidlovsky, Paul
N. Mi1liukoff. M. A. Makarauloff, v.
N. Lvoff, v. A. Rjevsky and Col. En-
glehard.
The order dissolving the Dun1aL was
issued by the Emperor just before he
left for the front recently. That trou-
BILE would result was evidently ex-
pected, and the residents OF 1sar -koe-
Selo were warned to make all ar
rangements to remSin in tho suburb
for an indefinite period, and the roads
to the town were guarded
The immediate occurrences leading
to Mondays developments began at S
o'clock Sunday evening, when the
men Of the Volynsky Regiment shot
their officers and revolted after re-
ceiving an order to fire upon strik-
| ing workingmen in one Of the factory
districts. Another regiment detailed
against the mutineers also joined. the
revolt. The news spread rapidly to
the other barracks, and four more
regiments went over. Some Of the
revolving troops marched to the ia
nous st. Peter and st. Paul fortress
on the left bank of the Neva; and af-
ter a brief skirmish with the garri-
son took possession Of it.
Prisons Are Thrown Open.
Before nightfall on Monday.
which marked the turning point in the
battle between the government troops
and the mutineers, all the principal
strongholds arsenals, factories and
barracks sing the st Peter and
ST. Paul fortress and artillery head
quarters, fell into the hands OF the