SCENES IN PETROGRAD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 23 October 1914, Page 3

SCENES IN PETROGRAD.

ATTAGK (ON THE GERMAN

3EMBASSY,

MOB YIOLENCE

The war spirii^thrpughout Russia has "been stirred'to frenzy by the treatment ■of the Empress "Maria Feodorovna, the arrest as a prisoner of ' Avar of the trrand Buke 'Uon^tantine while undergoing Tiis visual retire at Wildungen, and the arrogatrfc -affiance of the great Powers of Em'ope'by GermanjT. In Petrograd Ifhe indignation of the people 'found • vent !in an attack on the' German Embassy. On the night of .August 4 (says the correspondent or %he horning Post) a crowd of 50,000 pei^sons who had "been demonstrating mttside the Italian Embassy, swept down upon the German Embassy, in t'hs great square dominated by. Si. Isaa-d's. Cathedral. In five minutes ;every pane of glass was smashed. The yard gates were broken open, and the ■angry-mob reacted the whole building. Illen appeared on the roof, attempting to throw down the 'flagstaff, which resembles the mainmast -of a big ship. The eagle at tho top was taken down and flung into the Mo^ka, one of Petrogra3"ss :many minor waterways. Meanwhile others .were wrestling, aamtl '£he f-^ntic1 cheers of the crowd Ijeloiv., w?l:- the bronse statues on the roof. "Bo'tli 1' 3 naked men'forming part of fhe -\y4V -known bronze group of hoTses .vaili men were flung down into the'strsst, "but the horses withstood the fury *tf j-thb workers :»nfl still remained standing forlorn. A. German flag Tsras raii up, and then torn to pieces, and -the Russian hoi-st-ecL in its place. While this was v going on on the roof the -m6h tore out tho ftrrniture from every room and flung it-into the 'street, where "bonfires wei:e <piick!y made. Feathers from beds and loose ieaves of books wtt-e flying all.over the vast square;, and -portraits were defaced, torn ucp, amdfflung out witl\ all the artistic araatneuAs, and, indeed, with everything saovsfble. The Tbai-e walls, with here and --ehere a damaged chandelier hanging awry, are all that now remam of the rieh Exterior of the largest embassy in !Peirogi?ad. Some time passed before the police could clear the crowd, but -±foe. popu-, lace remained in state of dieaigerous excitement and hostility to the resident Germans,"•said ■to'""TjlAinber about 60,000. Shops witli German is£g.ns were wrecked and German Hewspap*!? offices ston^- ( . ■■■■-. ■ , =——~ ■i —tl^sj- ■--■'-.' :■■''-;■]