EVERY.WEAPON BUT THE BIG ARTILLERY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14286, 1 May 1917, Page 4

EVERY. WEAPON BUT THE BIG ARTILLERY.

PETROGRAT), March 16. Every weapon save- only heavy-artillery ■was freely used in Petrograd's streets during the. days of tthe revolution. IV day there is> -still, considera/ble firing. Rifles, revolvers, machine guns and armed' motors, all have beeivralnd are still in ■u5e,..,.... -v. . ,k...;w«-^ .-i -.'■ . .; ■•■ <• ' ■■ The military JiSplql which lodged exclusively officers, from the front and their wives and. families, with- the majority of 'the officers, present here as -representatives of the Allies, was subjected- to a heavy, fusillade -from machine-:' 'guns on armored, motors, entirely a's the result of what^was represented as provocation on the vP a i^ •<*!< a* 1 pro-German resident who i.fired>>upoiV .'the ; people 1 Irom;' .the windows,. . . .-. . " - The daughter.. of ; the- 'Russian General Tumanoffji who is now ■commanding a cavalry division at, the front, was- severely wounded nr the neck and' her rooms were ruined in the. fusillade, • A mob of armed men, soldiers, 1 sailors and civilians, afterwards thoroughryv searched' the Astoria-and disarmed all Russian officers, ! but showed! markedl < consideration of , Allied officers. . - Similar - scenes were enacted throughout Petrograri.