Catoctin clarion., 1917-03-22
Russian Car Detkroned.
Grand Duke Michael Named as
Regent. Order Quickly
Restored.

the pro-Gcrman influences at th'
head of the Russian government, {
revelation was brought about las
week, resulting in the dethroning O.
Emperor Nicholas and the establish
ing of a new government with Crane
Duke Michael as regent.
Dispatches from Petrograd dated
March 18th state that after three
days of battle between troops support
ing it and those opposed to it, revo-
luton was successfully affected in Pc.
trograd.
Events leading up to the revolu.
tion began week ago with street
demonstrations of workingmen who
quit work as protest against the
shortage of bread. The first two
days mounted patrols kept the crowds
moving without resolting to violence.
When ordered to fire on the people
they refused. Police were substitut-
ed and battle occurred between
them and the troops.
Regiment after regiment joined
the revolters and seized arsenals and
other stragic points.
'Thursday the city emerged from
weeks nightmare of revolution and
fguratively smiled under brilliant
flood of sunshine after the series of
gray days ending with a snowstorm
Wednesday evening. Planks were
pulled down from windows long clos
ed. Stores, banks and business es-
tablishments of every description re-
opened their doors for the resumption
of ordinary activities, seemingly con-
tident as the new temporary govern
ment gained in force" "
Isaac Don Irvine, writing from
New York, says:
The long drawn-out contest be
tween the Russian democracy and
autocracy has now dramatically end
ed in the complete triumph of the
former.
"The citadel of rcactionism on
Garth is no more. A great and free
democracy has taken its place. No
greater triumph for the cause of civil
lization and freedom has been regis
tered in history since the French rev.
olution.
"The incalculable consequences of
this epochal event become apparant
only from a review of the causes and
forces responsible for it. The Russian
revolution is entirely a product of the
war. Had there been no war, had
Russia not been allied with great de-
mocracies of Europe, Czarism would
still be rampant today in the great
Slavic Empire.
For the forces that accomplished
the change in the Russian Govern
ment are not the usual revolutionists
of Russia. The industrial classes and
peasantry which rebelled in 1905 re-
NAMED passive this time.
"The leaders of the revolution are
Russia's finest and ablest sons. The
chiefs of the army, the Duma, the
Imperial Council, the great social or
CARNATIONS working for the prosecu-
ton of the war and a number of high
court officials and relatives of the
Gar combined, for the first time in
Russian history, against the clique
of Germanophiles controlling the
government. No revolution could
have been successful without such a
combination. And such a combina-
could never have been created with
out the issue of the present war, the
struggle between democracy and Prus-
sianism.
He further states that certain ele-
ments in the old government, the
Duma included, believed that revolu-
ton in Russia during the war would
mean disaster to the Allies cause.
They, therefore, confined their activi-
ties toward the improvement OF the
government. But their success was
practically nil. For it soon became
apparant that the Russian Govern
ment was a nest of treason; that the
pro- German elements in the court
were dominating Russia, and that
losing the war, and not winning it,
was the chief object of the Cars ad-
mirers.
I'm turning against these elements
and accomplishing the overthrow OF
the Government, as it has existed,
the leaders of the revolution have
won for the Allies the greatest victory