Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-23 | Page 5 | Grand Duke Gives his Adhesion to New Russ Regime

GRAND DUKE GIVES HIS ADHESION TO NEW RUSS REGIME LONDON, March 22. A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Copenhagen gives the following statement, made by i Grand Duke Nicholas, commander-in-chief of the Russian forces in the Caucasus, Cau-casus, to the correspondents at his head-guarters head-guarters in Tiflls, Transcaucasia: A return to the old regime is impossible im-possible and I would never consent to such a retrograde step. I look 1 forward to ultimate victory in the war, but a necessary condition in the interval is Internal peace. I am sure the government will be able to prevent pre-vent anarchy, but only with tho support sup-port of the people. All the members of the former Russian dynasty have placed themselves at the disposition of the provisional government, according to a Reuter dispatch from Petrograd. Pet-rograd. Grand Duke Cyril has resigned his command of the naval guards. Robberies, incendiarism and some murders, mur-ders, have occurred in Petrograd, according accord-ing to a dispatch to Reuters from the Russian capital The disorders were started by rowdies, who were encouraged by the police, the dispatch says, but were quickly suppressed by the militia police.