The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-19
Authorities Believe Gar Has
Enough Followers to Fight.
CLERGY TO BACK HIM UP?
New Government Already Di-
yided, Many Believe.
Cars AbdicatiOn Was Neither
Valid nor Voluntary!
BY WILLIAM BAYARD HALE.

! Berlin, March 19.-Delayed-Th
new Russian government will not be
able to give the people the bread for
which they cry but it may be able to
give them the peace which they are
demanding with equal eagerness.
! The above is the consensus of ooin-
ion obtained in the most thoughtful
quarters in Berlin. including the So
cial Democrats who are especially in
terested in news from Petrograd.
There is no evidence that the morale
of Germany is affected in the slightest
degree except for the better.
While it was recognized from the
first that the revolution probably had
its original inspiration from English
influence, it is believed that the results
are bound to operate to the advantage
| of the central powers and this in any
possible event.
Reports in the English press adver-
Using the revolution as an "anti-Ger-
man victory are received with de-
rision by all classes here, but it is
generally felt that the events now pro-
ceeding in Russia are bound to prove
iamong the most dramatic and most
important events of modern history.
| At the present moment the whole
fate of Europe hangs in the balance
people will eventually reach.
Bread Riots Continue.
| Thus far, according to details reach
ing Berlin, there has been no relief in
the food situation. Bread riots con-
tinued.
From Budapest comes reports that
Russian troops at the front hailed the
revolution, but it is not known whether
this is due to democratic Inspirations
or TO the hope of relief from war.
Undoubtedly the former car is in
prison in the laurie Palace and his
reported abdication can not be re-
garded as voluntary or valid.
What determination the army will
finally make, what decision the clergy
and the moujiks (peasants) will take
lies in the lap of the gods.
Immensely dramatic events still
portending will exercise tremendous
Influence upon France. Whatever
turn events may take, only the hap
piest possible result is likely to ac
crue to the interests of Germany and
humanity
Such were some of the leading
points which positively expressed the
conviction of Professor Theodor
Schiemann, instructor of Eastern
European history and chronological
Geography at the University of Berlin,
and E,urope'S most distinguished au-
thority on Russia.
Professor Schiemann talked to your
correspondent at his home in the
TauentzienstrasSe , in his library lined
with thousands of volumes and dig
nified by all the para phernalia of a
famous scholar.
Gar Has Following.
The converse ton was so interesting,
and Professor Schiemann so ready to
speak out his views that it was con-
tinued through the streets on the way
to the professors lecture room at the
University.
THE car has still innumerable fol-
lowers among the 'conserva tives and
the high clergy" he said. while the
-Petrograd garrison submitted it ap-
pears that the Moscow military au-
thorities refused to abandon its 10y
atty to the car.
Enthusiastically the yearnings of
the common soldier are for an early
peace and it is a question whether
Brusiloff, Evert and Ruzzeky are
ready lettering dynasty.
THE probabilities speak against
this.
1.-The association of revolutionary
the new ministry, is absolutely i'm
possible-a thing opposed to all rea-
son. 1t is inconceivable that Tsche-
idze and Kerenski, representing the
working men, will be permanently
able to cooperate with the liberal
type of Tschingaroff.
"Rodzianko is merely a huge speci-
men of vanity, pride and conceit
Gutchkoff as minister of war and navy
is an absurdity.
characteristic is the fact that
Minister of Justice Kerenski comes
from the most extreme left and began
his activities with the proclamation |
of freedom for political prisoners.
There is no question that the mass
of the people stands nearer to the |
social revolutionists than to the So
called liberal group headed by Mily- |
ukoR and Rodzianko who ostensibly |
headed the original movement
Whether the traditional blind de-
votion of the moujiks to the car can
be relied upon is doubtful So far as
the clergy, always heretofore a trem-
endous factor in politics in Russia. is
concerned, it is impossible to denv
the possibility of a counter revolution
in favor of the old regime
Only the future days can bring |
certain light on these points"
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