FAILED TO READ SIGNS OF TIMES.

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

FAILED TO READ SIGNS OF TIMES.

.'..,- LDNaQON, March 16. Fufthej* .- 'details of the event s preceding the revolutionary coup in Petrograd are given in a ..despatch from the Russian .capital;' r-The despatchi says the workhigHclass hadp decided' ony "peaceful" street demenstraUoiis o'« : Saturdays.' Eai'lyon Saturday mQmiing'ithe police -warned the citizens tiot. toi leave their houses as it was; not safe.-, In sother words- the food demonstrators were to be*-suppress-ed within iron 'hand. Undeterred, -however j by this warning, the pebp'le Camfe out in 'such numbers that the,, Nevsty Prospect ' r . and' .other main' thoroughfares wero' thronged/ The crowds were nVbstly from" the middle classes, as the roads from the labor districts were- barred; The people were, so good-natui^efdf-and 'jovial that! the kuth6rities believed -at first that the day would pass in peace. Nevertheless they took precautions'' by sending f Or • reinforcements. '•• •■'■- •',•.;;:•>- ■ ' ■- '-- t- . Patrbl after • patTOL of ■ Cossacks,' mounted and foot soldiers and police lined : ■ the >Ne.vsky ! .' Prospecit, and < tho court yardA'of the houses were filled with reserves.*'" Tho : crowd still >gopdtnatured cheered the troops and Cossacks warmly as the' soldiers - showed- themselves ap* preciative. There was 'an unprecedented feeling of cotnraderie between the public and the troops. .Cossacks doffed theirshats repeatedly to the cheeuers, and Bomei-gr'oup of soldiers cheered .baob at the crowds. ! It was a sign of the times wliicjb the. : authorities, however, failed j to. reader ■ i ■•■; ••■■ U. '■- ■ '■ ■'•'■' •';■■ '■ \