ORDER-IS THE WATCHWORD.

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

ORDER- IS THE WATCHWORD.

;.'•' I^WTDbN, -.iMarch 16. On© of the most -r«inarkable features of the Russian vev.ol«tioin,, says Renter's l'etvo^i'frf ' correspondent, has been the speed with > which .. the. people h^ve resumeU'riormanife.,;>Qrder,w r the watch--. •\roi"d^ of the day and even prevailed among unorganised -crowds:, during the liaight of the uprising. The . correspoTident .continues:-"- ; : ' ' '' . . "For spine weeks' past"- everybody, in Petrocrad xeaused. iiliat a crisis ap^ proacning-:;v The-' temper even of' the ■most patient peppie in the world be^ ooinesVfi'ayed Wlieiv they are obliged to stand- ■ three, o* fom; hours in ■ temperature 1 "10V orf 2(X'- below 1 zexx> waiting for breid^ :> Which :6itten was t not obtained* Potatoes had' i'i'aen to'/- eight and • nine timesJfiithe.ir,. > ordinaxy price an4 ; <>ther food .eoAiri^dities^tei^e>t.a cost>pi'actic ally projri'bitive to' the poor. • ''The explanation, of the Minister • iof Ajh-iciUture,. M. JRattich, . were . not cajc^late<i; either " .to.- relieve - the .pa-esent hunger.' or the anxiety for the future.. He ascribed the delay in the arrival '.of. flour -'to "a snowstorm, .The 'people- in the streets' were nfot t^e .oj'tly ones who .squirmed under this sort of explanation. : Tlie Dwma leaders as 1 well re^avded. the. situation as inexousabhVv "and^'Presidient Bad/iahko finally felt justified in going t>> the" length of offering his wholeliearted aasiatance in putting into effect 1 fipecialii^^ ' measures for increasing the f cod supply: Vnik .: •lih. ; > •- >rMimater of -the. Interior Protopopoff was ab&enit from Saturday's conference oh the \food ■ question. M. Protopopoff

is a wealthy 'manufacturer and ;i a- 'courtier with "a / reputation for debonair duplicity. - "In the Tsarskoe-Selo Palace he Va.« reported lately as spending a large part of ihis'itime indulging 'in spiritualistic seances.' Equally detested by the parl^mentaiians and the, people, he. never appeared in.the- Duma since his Ministerial appointment. -..-*■' ; V-Witii such, an administration of agricultviVe and the interior, and with the Premier! a nonentity, 1 it was not*urpri«ingr, tliafc ithe food • prospects were regarded.; by. -.the. members of the Duma with the- -.greatest alarm and • dismay. • 'WliH'e tlje Duma leaders were discussing the food situation, the people' in the streets were >getting- more and more voluble in their protestsi against % the whole situiatio'n.",- .-„,,• „.,;■' ■'. ■. ' ■-. :•■■', ■ ■ • ■ -