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Show RELEASED AFTER TWENTY YEARS LONDON. March 16, 3 15 p. m. Router's correspondent, telegraphing from Petrograd. under date of March 15, says: "Late tonight some shooting is still heard in the capital, as concealed police po-lice reveal their whereabouts by opening open-ing fire from the roofs of houses. A rigorous search is going on and the police, when found, are given short shrift. "Large parties of Cossacks are riding rid-ing through the streets singing national nation-al songs There are processions of all kinds military, naval and civilian. "Masses of soldiers and others daily gather around the duma building, where remarkable scenes are taking place. The lobby seethes with earnest colloquies and mob oratory mingled with calls for patriotic work and self-sacrifice self-sacrifice or with denunciations. At one end of the lobby is a rampart of sacks of flour Here are piled boxes of cartridges and a half-dozen soldiers lie sleeping there. Table after table is surrounded by students and soldiers sol-diers busy keeping records "Among the visitors to the journalist journal-ist room has been the white-bearded Lopatine, a member of the nld BOClety of 'People's Will.' who for twenty years has been in the Schluesselburg prison and only now has been able to return to Petrograd " |