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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1917
Page
2
In a statement, M. I. M...nerensky says the forthcoming government will be republican, tolerant, and vow regular trials for old officials. He pledges no summary military action, abolition of capital punishment soon, and freedom for the press aiming for a liberal, human-rights based regime.
A Reuters dispatch reports Siberian political prisoners released from Kheritinsk prison arrive at Chita with a large welcome from crowds and military bands. Maria Spiridonova is carried on supporters shoulders. Petrograd notes robberies arson murders linked to disorder quelled by police.
Petrograd dispatch reports the Russian dynasty placing itself under the provisional government. Grand Duke Cayril resigns from command of the naval guards. Maria Spiridonova, daughter of a Russian general, was sentenced to death for the Tambov police chief Luzhenoffsky’s 1906 killing, later commuted to twenty years. While jailed she endured eleven hours of torture by two officers, who were later murdered.
Berlin Vorwaerts argues that the Russian revolution signals far reaching democratization of Europe and urges equal suffrage in Prussia during the war to avoid a great dangerous mistake.
The German auxiliary cruiser Moewe has returned to its home port from a second Atlantic cruise, announced by the German admiralty in Berlin.
A garden bureau was opened today in the mayor's suite of City Hall. A corps of clerks will assist in a campaign to urge Chicagoans to till vacant city land to reduce living costs. Experts will advise gardeners on cultivation.
A French woman credits the American relief commission with saving her and her children from starvation. Evacuated areas report German appropriation of relief supplies and white flour replacement with black flour. Villages recount shelling as Germans left, funerals in progress, and mixed reactions to liberation. The piece notes strategic difficulties for Allied advance and defends German and Allied actions in the broader wartime context.
Report from occupied France describes ongoing fighting as British and French attempt to aid civilians in liberated zones. German forces have deported Belgian and Russian workers, used civilians for trench labor, and burned or felled trees to block roads while denying brutality.
German cavalry joins French and British mounted troops on the western front amid German retreat. Officials describe this as a sign of major events and a possible real battle after years of trench resistance. An airplane raid by Prince Friedrich Karl failed to return. Major Moraht lauds the retreat as a bold strategic move shortening the front to inflict greater future damage.
British army dispatch from France reports continued wintry weather hindering operations on the western front. Snowfall reduces visibility for both sides while cavalry patrols press near St Quentin and heavy resistance persists between Arras and Ypres as forces push along a twenty mile sector southeast from Arras.
A semi official Serbian statement from Saloniki says Bulgarians renewed on March 18 and 19 their bombardment of Monastir using asphyxiating gas shells to avenge Allied pressure forcing a retreat from the open town.
The passage notes many victims in Monastir with twenty five dead and twenty four reported for a prior gas bombardment on March 17 that Serbians claim killed eighty civilians. The description emphasizes old men women and children among the dead.
Berlin Tageblatt discusses arming American merchantmen and fears sailors firing on first submarine seen. It warns a German submarine would stay submerged in danger zones and questions convoy by warships with impunity under the Declaration of London.
Andrew Bonar Law, a member of the British war council, moved in the House of Commons to greet the Russian Duma. He said Russia’s upheaval recalls France’s early revolution and urged support for the new government aiming to end the war and restore freedom and order at home.
One hundred women students at Northwestern University Evanston have finished the Red Cross first aid course and passed exams to serve as nurses assistants at base hospitals in war. Forty additional students are now enrolled in the course.
Alberto Sander and Charles N. Wannenberg pleaded guilty to sending spies to England to aid German authorities. They were sentenced to two years in a Federal prison in Atlanta and fined $2500 each. Assistant U.S. Attorney Knox described them as mere tools and highlighted the case of George Vaux Bacon, an American journalist, who was funded and equipped for covert intelligence work.
The Light announces Louis Heuermann has filed to run for Commissioner of Streets and Public Improvements in the upcoming election, a political advertisement specifying his candidacy.
El Paso Tex March 22 Car los Plank deputy to the Mexican National Congress from Sonora arrived here en route to Mexico City to attend a special session called by General Carranza for April 2 Manuel Prieto deputy.
Juarez district official expresses intent to travel to Mexico City to attend an extraordinary session and address pending matters today.
Governor in Austin signs two measures on March 22. One creates the Garrison independent school district in Bell County and the other establishes a more efficient road system for Wood County.
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