DETAILS OF THE REVOLUTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 95, 24 April 1917, Page 2

DETAILS OF THE REVOLUTION.

SOME INTERESTING EVIDENCE.

TSAR'S WEAK HOLD, ON THB

PEOPLE

EuVIFRESS'S PERSONALITY

(Tho Times Service.) . PETROGRAD, April 22. . I Irrefutable evidence is forthcoming ' regarding the revelation that the re- , actiqnaries,-- led by the Etapress and : Protopopoff, were sent to promote disturbances. A state of famine,was deliberately engineered in Petrograd and other cities, which the reactionaries were prepared to turn to "account as a pretext for a peace favorable to Germany. M. Protopopoff instructed , a perfect organisation to create disturbances. The weakness of the Tsar's hold on the neople was the most astonishing fdatura of the* revolution He was nothing to them. He was hardly a name. Nowhere was regret heard at bis ■abdication. The Empress was the most interesting personality of- the old regime. While the Tsar was thoroughly anti-German and pro-Ally, the Empress was anti-Ally and proGerman. She believed that her- mission was to maintain the absolute ( monarchy far her husband and son. She was' intensely mystical, and she believed that God had. chosen Russia as the instrument of great miracles, hence partly tho sway that the repul?ivo impostor Rasputin exercised over ( her. Perhaps she was right that Russia would be chosen as the scene ■of >Hgre.it miracles, though not precisely of the kind she imagined. Tlip influence of the Duma on the , Provisional Government is daily grow- > inff. The bulk of workmen and sol- j diers are patriotic. They know that i Germany must be befiten if their liberties are to be assured. J