. Russia in revolution; being the experiences of an Englishman in Petrograd during the upheaval . em. This my friend did, and the soldiersat once advised him to go to the head-quartersof the militia. Upon arriving there three orfour militiamen said that they would go withhim, but when he pointed out that it wouldrequire more than three or four men to dealwith twenty-one armed and drunken hooligans,they decided that it would be advisable forhim to go to the head of the military. At head-quarters he was immediately givena detachment of forty soldiers under thecommand of a self-appointed officer.
. Russia in revolution; being the experiences of an Englishman in Petrograd during the upheaval . em. This my friend did, and the soldiersat once advised him to go to the head-quartersof the militia. Upon arriving there three orfour militiamen said that they would go withhim, but when he pointed out that it wouldrequire more than three or four men to dealwith twenty-one armed and drunken hooligans,they decided that it would be advisable forhim to go to the head of the military. At head-quarters he was immediately givena detachment of forty soldiers under thecommand of a self-appointed officer. Theythen commandeered a large motor lorryand set off for the house. This, althoughquickly narrated, took about two hours toaccomplish, and it was thus about twelveoclock at night when the motor lorry withits load arrived in the vicinity of the was no firing going on in that quarter,but as the lorry with its load was passingthrough a square in front of a church and twolarge buildings, three machine-guns suddenlyopened on them, wounding several, my friend,however, luckily O hjo INCIDENTS OF THE REVOLUTION 257 Then ensued a fight between the soldiersand the pohce on the roofs. Many othersoldiers and people gathered and a briskfight, lasting over an hour, took place. Sud-denly there was one clang on the church belland the firing from the roofs and belfriesceased. The soldiers found the keeper of thechurch and opened the doors, and a party ofthem made their way to the belfry, where,although they could see where the machine-gun had stood and numbers of empty cart-ridge cases, there was no trace whatsoever ofthe gun or the police, who had no doubt madetheir escape by some underground passage. Although the original party of soldiers wasmore or less disorganised, my friend collectedtogether eight soldiers and made his way onfoot with them to the house. On arrivingthere they found both the owner and hiswife were uninjured, but the house hadbeen thoroughly ransacke
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