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Show SLAVS WILL HEFEXI) PUMA TO LAST MAN Russian Army Pledged to Do Its Utmost to.. Protect Petrogrnd. Potrograd, March 2C. After tho discharge of four gas waves tho Germans Ger-mans yesterday attempted to mako on advance near Postavy, on the northern part of tho Russian front below Dvlnsk. Tho war office announces an-nounces that tho Germans wero repelled. re-pelled. The news that Field Marshall von Hlndenburg was planning n campaign ngnlnst Petrograd was received at tho capital with little consternation, evoking rather a spirit oC confidence in the loyalty of tho troops and their ability to protect tho city. It Is undenlablo that during tho first days following tho revolution the extreme radical and socialist element ele-ment aimed at taking advantago of tho overthrow of the authqrlty by sowing further discontent among the working men nnd soldiers. Tho cloudy state of mind of tho peasant I population, which, bewildered by tho now vista of freedom and equality and having had little experience with liberty of any sort, Imagined that It meant relaxation of every kind of authority and discipline, made tho propaganda of the agitators easy at first. But tho prompt measures taken tak-en by the, government and duma delegations del-egations removed whatever danger lay In that direction. Telegrnms havo been received from every portion of tho front affirming af-firming that tho army can bo relied upon to do its utmost to defend tho country. M. Hodzlanko, presldont of tho duma, received a delegation from tho army, which declared: "All officers and soldiers will defend de-fend the duma to the last drop of their blood. They will faithfully obey tho provisional government and ' will strike the German to tho last man." |
