The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . ywhere there was fraternizing andassurances of good will. On Sunday, March 11th, the stormbroke from two directions. Prompted bywhat only themselves probably knew,squads of the hated and dreaded policeopened fire on the crowds in the casualties were not many, but thebarking of the machine guns was reallythe tocsin of the revolution. The Dumawas then in session and open rebellion wasprecipitated by the demand from the Pal-ace that it disband. The Czars emissarieswere given its refusal and that the go
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . ywhere there was fraternizing andassurances of good will. On Sunday, March 11th, the stormbroke from two directions. Prompted bywhat only themselves probably knew,squads of the hated and dreaded policeopened fire on the crowds in the casualties were not many, but thebarking of the machine guns was reallythe tocsin of the revolution. The Dumawas then in session and open rebellion wasprecipitated by the demand from the Pal-ace that it disband. The Czars emissarieswere given its refusal and that the govern-ment feared to suppress it by force wasevidence that it lacked confidence in The Duma, composed of menwho for years had had no outlet for theirtheories and built up Utopian govern-ments in their minds, turned out idealisticreforms of government by the score. Oneof the first of these was the abolishmentof capital punishment, by which the laudhad lieen held in terror, and to tlie parlia-mentary protection flocked many politicaloutcasts. Members of the Duma visiter!. Cleaning up Sackville street. Dublin, after rebellion It Ic: it it were bonibarderl b artillery fire. HISTORY OF THE WAR 133 the people in the streets and the soldiersand pleaded for and received pledges ofsupport. Though the mobs in the street contin-ued their mild forms of violence, there waslittle bloodslied. The greatest anger wasdirected against the hated police andwherever these were found they werekilled. Numbers of the police, apparent-ly under the promptings of Protopopoff,barricaded themselves on the rooftops andused the machine guns he had placedthere. The soldiers were with the peopleand when a loyal unit fortified itself inthe building of the admiralty on the Nev-ski Prospect, the soldiers threatened toblow it to pieces with the big guns in thefortress of St. Peter and Paul imless itsurrendered. The Czar was with the armies at thefront. Curiously enough, little of therevolution seemed to b
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