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AN fcYfc-wiiNfcNN bVtMNOF RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONFamous War Correspondent Begins Today for Sunday Post Great Series of Revelations as to What Led Up to Overturn of Czar’s Throne by PeopleThe Sunday Post presents today the first ot a valuable series of articles by Stanley Washburn, the celebrated war correspondent.They treat of the present Russian revolution and of the men who have brought the new Russia into being.Washburn lias been in Russia during this great xvar and lived through the days that led up to the present crisis. He is one oi the very few correspondent' that the Russians have allowed in constant attendance at the theatre of operations in the field.It was during the most severe fighting in the Russo-Japanese war that Washburn made his reputation a a writer of thrilling accounts of the terrible battles then waged In his own speedy launch, lie was in the thick of the naval fights, defying the combined navies to prevent him from getting the news.Since then Mr. Washburn has made a thorough study of conditions in Russia and has personally become acquainted with most of the big men of the nation.This uni series, replete with interesting facts, continues for sete'a! Sundays to come.BY STANLEY WASHBURNTinsuve seen the Ruj- But It had become a queition ofthe Winter Palace the elimination ot the C*ar andSquare tearing down the imperial cm- with him the group of malevolentbleim frotr the Winter Palace and Intrlguera or risk the fate of Rus-ripping the picture* of the imperial sla in the war.pair from ever, public building in (Jarman Influence .MenaceThe German Influence In Russia hueAnd vet the first wee* Of August. . been of generations In standing but notIBM. u,tnes»ed one of the most ex- XttSS .f'w.TbJSi*traordriar, demon'tratioin ill I elro-, , menace to the vary life of tbe whole grad that the Russian capital had ever *'l°When the now German empire entered experienced. . H, Industrial penod alter the war ofThe dav after the declaration of isn U speedily became evident that»'» I It alt area: potential mar-ear liiere gathered in this same huge j hw ellipie that face* Ihc red Winter Half A. the German internal development ace in Pelrograd a crowd of nv-e *• «'”» *•'«* - • »■' than one hundred thousand li of the intense heat of *I male vole in track of Herman Intrigue | maneuvrlna under cover In Hus*!* to : defeat everythin* that in-ant the good ; of the Kumar people.There are men* who believe lhal the abolition of vodka would have come five year, before lh« war. but for ihe Osr-I man Influences about the court, that I are eald to have eubtly discouraged I the Kmperor from carrying out 'what In reality was hie own wteh for many yearn before the war. A Rtieelan peasantry sodden with drink won certainly not a dimoult problem for Ihe German trader to deal with.In u like way, measure* for education and Internal Improvement were diecouraged by the name unpatriotic factions In Rueela The Csar’s point of view, however.haa never bean antl-Rueelan. butratber pro-autocratic, from infancy he had been taught that autocracy was Ihe only government for Ituaala and all of the repreeelve meaauree which he hue ■auctioned have probably been put up to him a- neceaaary act to maintain and perpetual Ihe hold of hi* dynasty upon the empire.In the leal decade preceding the war the German influence had acquired such etrengtli In Ruaala that It had been able to Blip Ita agents into many of the highest office* In Retrograd Few r»*l-lud the extent to which thla ectlvtty had gone until war wae declared when II became evident that In almost every quarter perntclou Influence* had heen at workBridge Mystery Explained When the Hiueian- withdrew from Poland In Auguet. Wit. they blew up Ihe hrld*. at Kahehe and fur weeke everyone vn pusr.led how it came about lhal Ihe Germane had a new ■reel bridge operating In II hours; investigation developed Dial the bridge ’ had been mada In Germany on contract 1st by th war department; original blue print* were on (lie and when the war wa* declared duplicate parta were already made and wllhln live hour after Ihe lluaala ns left I lie ateel •» on 1 the hank and In IS hour* troop* acre passing In tram- in pursuit of the Rua-•ve and systematic 'Pltc lo capture and to l-ofd In perpetuity this *h* huge market of an empire ahich , . , baa now reached a population of near-immcntc throng stood for hour, in „.the Ida/mg sunshine before the home » I* ■ perfectly obvioua fact that a, .... . l j . .__ progreaslve and Indualrtal Ruasla wasof the Cur*, where it had been re- . mriUir. u*lln,n oommerea and itported the Emperor of all the RuA wa* equally evident that an cducajedvia,,, was for the day with hi. ^sort and the little boy, heir to the tm- I the same time make a far mors dan-oerial thrnnr i S'1’ mllttsnt neighbor on Germany's‘ . eaalem frontier than she eared to eon-l-or hour* And in almost an un-1 template. Germany'* motive* then for broken silence the populace waited »At last the Emperor, moved by the Vm Germany wttbout cooperation knowledge of the .lenson.'ration. ap- wlUHn Rusrva could hardly expect ro,1,- hair no »iih the Rm- Influence Internal potluoal conditionspeared on the nueonv unn tne r.m- lhp of nHllol,press and the intall Grand Duke.Instantly the entire croud kneeled „ «**«•»•■ B-r.«lt;r.,a fin the square and with spontaneou,enthusiasm sang the Russian natsonal faction who»c aelllah interests likewiseDuring the earl, months of the war In Poland every move the Russians made was known instantly by the enemy. A* weeks went by It became more and more evident that wherever there had been German industry or German traders, there in the war were to be fou:id German spies.On or m almost every German owned factory In Poland were found wirelsas I telegraph slat Ions and underground | telephone* to advise tbe Germans of the Russian movements.Refore the war was a month old therebegan to dawn on Ruxa'.sns ever, wherethe msaitng of the Germsn trade and German influence In Ruula. but even then no one dreamed of the grip that the canker had on the highest position*gnthrn b, .Hr tor.- The ™withdrewKmperoremotionovercomefor their hest good Thl. facimn »*s composed of the office holders who for. years have been ahls lo pre, on Ihel or the first time in a hundred | n.tlonal revenue.. which for centurieshave flowed vaguely and Irresponsiblyin the RiWhen Warsaw wa. threatened the world suddenly was amaaed to find that the formerly strong ilefnim of Warsaw had been demolished I wo year* before by order of Sukomllnov. Russian minister of war. on the ground that fortified cltler might prove traps forvcar* the Crat seemed to he iniiitr union with hit nroole and there l',ou«,, *,M’ of. hu,M‘lute Uljtoti »un nis people anci mere (,n)| ,n (h„ Russian rapttnl. An educatedseemed lo he for him a new place in Russia meant a liberal government andthe hearts of his people. • government lo.vlt.bly meantThe following spring suspicions began lo crop up everywhere against theSmooth and oily minister of war wh»had ensured the fsar that Russia was fully equipped and prepared with guns and munitions to conduct as long a warministry responsible lo the people and ; lor nearly two years pact he has „„ immediate check on the graft and;Shell Offer Turned Downmoved about Petrosrad and Russia corruption which have become such an almost without guards and has visited ^2^.place* without escort where hefore One orten hears harsh criticism otthe war it was considered un-afc for »u*mss method* a. being titledtne war it wa* comioereu unsatr .or w(|h bIlh„y ,n4 OTfllpi„, but l-lhim to go even with armed battalions Americans pause and consider whatj,,,- .round him would be tbe conditions In tbta country. Idrawn up around him ^ ^ ^ ^ (1|To understand what bar brought public revenues ran through channel, about this extraordinary change of which there ... no responsiblesentmie.it in less than three years, it £rJI£“ I^.T^uc.T'hi* jis Iieeesvary to examine into the iae- system In the eame way that we And jtor which has made fhii revolution ** n***1* system in Chinator men w maue mu revolution A| ()|ln ^ tJw a,rm,ni hpcal0f dMp. \possible—and that is the German in- i I, involved in the Rumlan market, there»?—In Ru*sii ;• — I portion of tbe Bureaucracy who livedProbably the ‘ur ha* changed vary I as parasites by preying on the nationallittle and Uio people are much the same. | revenues. There are Urge number* otbut now th* latter have at laat come to German* In Ihe Baltic provtnna whorealm tbe true meaning of the Gorman I are Rueelan subjects and for manyinflusnoe which for nearly two dCedes jure this element of the empire hasI nn. personslly acquainted with an Individual who offered the Russian government n large quantity of shells for field guns to be delivered In February.1*15 lie has a teller In reply datedNovember. »tl. signed by Ihe doughty minister of war to the effect that by February. 1*15. Rutuda would have shells for ssle. so huge acre the elor-« lt;r munitions and the offer was politely turned down.In latter March and Apnl 1*15. bug* quantities of shells that were a shade to large were delivered on the eastern front and by strange coincidence a German drive wa* delivered at Ihe aame time the badly guaged ahel a arrived at the front. As usual, live Russia ant soldiers paid th* price of body * blunder a* these thing* were ■till being called.ha* heen endeaiorlng to strangle the b,.n gaining a greater and greater hold ...... official life In RuaoA.national life of/• , I do not mean, of course, to IntimateConsider C*«r Well-Meaning ,41 ,he Baltic Province tlamian.II.a I. r-en noasfble to eliminate th, «*• disloyal, for hundreds and thou-A little later In the year the wife 0? .he minister of war become Involved in a German »py scandal, and later still, when Grodno fell almost without resistance. it was discovered that
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Sun, Mar 25, 1917
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