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Show M IS ORDERED UNDER ARREST PETROGRAD, March 21. via London March 22, 10 a. m An order for the arrest of Nicholas Romanoff and Alexandra Alex-andra Feodorovna, former emperor and empress of Russia, has been issued is-sued by the provisional government. General Alevleff has been charged with the duty of guarding the prisoners prison-ers until members of the duma arrived ar-rived with an escort to take them to Tsarskoe-Selo. LONDON. March 21. 3 07 p. m. The Russian government has ordered that the deposed emperor and his consort shall be regarded as having been deprived de-prived of their liberty and that they shall be brought to the Tsarskoe-Selo. Router's Petrograd correspondent telegraphs. tel-egraphs. WASHINGTON. March 21. Recognition Recog-nition of the provisional council of mlni.-t.il'C .if tKrt irt fttAA fiAVDril mf'Tl t uniiifiii. i o yj i nit: vn lavw i if Russia has been accorded by the United States through conversations carried on by Ambassador Francis at Petrograd This was stated at the state department today, with tho explanation ex-planation that full recognition of the new government would be delayed pending demonstration of its stability. LONDON. March 22, 1 a. m. Princo Lvoff, the new Russian premier, receiving re-ceiving the Russiau newspaper men at Petrograd, outlined the progress In tho creation of new Russia, says a Router dispatch from that capital. The southwestern and western ironts, tho premier said, were entirely on the side of the people. There had been some excesses on the northern front but the commissioners sent thither had found on their arrival that order and discipline had been restored. The whole Baltic fleet was with the government, continued Prince Lvoff, and nil disturbances had ceased. Finland Fin-land was also unanimously on the side of the government. Nowhere was there reason lor anxiety. The government govern-ment was in constnnt contact with the workmen's delegates and did not expect serious dissensions. The work of renovation was immense; neveithe-ks neveithe-ks tin convocation of the constituent constitu-ent assembly was only a question of months. |