SOLDIERS' DEMAND DELAYED BY DEPUTY'S APPEAL.

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

SOLDIERS' DEMAND DELAYED BY DEPUTY'S APPEAL.

■ ' ' PETROGRAD,, Mareh 16. No more dramatic incident occurred in the last few! days of rioting rthan that of the arrest : of the- formier Alinisteri of War, General Sukhomilinoff. A group of soldiers and of hastily-armed people »him. The soldiers demanded his. instant* execution,, recalling vivid stories ofi : the - former' -Minister's duplicity , .and \ treasonable dealings - with Germany. j Deputy Kerensky of Saratoff, ou£.o.f the I Duma leaders ' in the involution, and | Mjhfeter-'-of (Justice in the provisional Government, intervened. He appealed tortile mob to spare the Minister's life. ] ! declaaingx justice wottld' be meted out to \ him v .i' .:•«-. ■ ■ ;•.-, ,■) • ;'•- ■ .-••■.• - ■ I He -declared Sukliomilinoff desired notlung better titan immedriate execution. \ The crowd wavered and Kerensky won the .day. . 'But then ih© soldiers demanded, thfci;p (former chief's degradation. „!■ . . '• • . . . , Sukliomilinoff himself tore his epaulets from his shoulders and handed them to soldier*,of ithe>grouj> which guarded him; He bowed brokenly ;,and submitted himself to their mercies. • Tottering in Ws disgrace and. overwhelmed with "despair, •he was taken away with [difficulty, i hardly bejng, able to walk, -He was imprisoned in Tauris Palace, where obher notables, wei-e he1d. .,., . i ••-,.■■