Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-03-22
CAR ADVOCATES:
new REGIME
Anti German Faction Claims
Complete Victory.


Petrograd, March 15.-The emper-
or of Russia has abdicated and
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch
his younger brother, has been named
as regent. The Russian miniktry,
charged with corruption and incom-
potency, has been swept out of Of
flee. One. minister, Alexander Pro-
topopoff, head Of the interior de-
partment, is reported to have been
killed, and other ministers, as we'll
as the president of the imperial
council, are under arrest.
A new national cabinet is an
nounced, with Prince Lvoff as presi-
dent of the council and premier, and
the other offices held by the men
who are close to the Russian people.
For several days Petrograd has
been the scene of one of the most
remarkable risings in history. Be-
ginning with minor food riots and
labor strikes, the cry for food reach
ed the hearts of the soldiers, and
one by one the regiments rebelled,
until finally those troops that had
for a time been loyal to the govern
ment, took up their arms and march
ed into the ranks of the revolution
lists.
Duma President Leads Revolt.
The president of the duma, Mich
ael V. Rodzianko, was the leading
figure among the deputies who unan-
imously decided to oppose the i'm
perial order for dissolution of the
house. They continued their ses-
sions and M. Rodzianke informed
the emperor, then at the front, that
the hour had struck when the will
of the people must prevail.
Even the imperial council realized
the gravity of the situation and add
ed its appeal to that of the duma
that the emperor should take steps to
give the people policy and govern
ment in accordance with their de-
sires and in order that there should
be no interference with carrying on
the war to a victorious ending.
Emperor Back From Front.
The emperor fastened back from
the front, only to find that the rev.
olution had been successful and that
a new government was in control.
The empress, who, it is alleged, has
been influential in the council oppos-
ed to the wishes of the people, is re-
ported to have fled or to be in hid
ing.
/, Altho considerable fighting took
place, it is not believed that the
casualties are large.
After three days Of battle be-
tween troops supporting it and those
opposed to it, revolution was sue
cessfully effected in Petrograd.
The casualties probably did not
exceed 500.
AbdicatiOn Unexpected.
Washington, March 15.-The over
throw of the Russian autocracy was
accepted in all quarters here as a
complete victory for the anti-German
sentiment in the empire, removing
virtually all chance of Russia being
drawn away from her allies into a
separate peace.
The sensation created by the news
of the successful revolution, the
turning out of the ministry and the
arrest of pro-Germans was followed
by another more profound when
press dispatches announced the abdi-
cation of Emperor Nicholas. The
revolution was not wholly unexpect-
ed but the abdication of the emper-
or was dumbfounding to both official
and diplomatic circles.
It has been assumed that altho the
emperor, Influenced by his German
wife and pro-Teutonic advisers, was
lukewarm or worse in the support of
his allies, he would be permitted to
continue nominally as the head of
the new government. Neither oftici-
ais or diplomats could understand
what the revolutionary leaders ex-
pected to accomplish by shifting the
crown.
Grand Duke Nicholas, idol of
the Russian army and ranked as
Russia's master strategist, looms
up as the big military figure of
the hour in the empire, which
has just witnessed a successful
and almost bloodless revolution
and the abdication of it's en-
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