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Show DUMA PLANS TO OllliANIZE MEN Soldiers to Join People to Help to Guard the Capita!. TELEGGRAMS TO FLEETS Sixty Thousand Troops in Petrograd Pet-rograd Political Prisoners Have Been Released. LONDON, March 15, 10:30 p. m "The military committee of the duma,' says Reuters Petrograd correspond ent, in a dispatch dated Wednesday, "has asked all the officers not yet employed em-ployed by the committee to undertake the organization of the soldiers who Joined the people, and help guard the capital. The committee issued a ! statement pointing out that at the present moment, when facing an enemy ene-my who wishes to take advantage of the temporary weakness of the eoun-i eoun-i trj't it was absolutely necessary to make every effort to maintain the power of the army. It added that the blood of the Russians who have died during the two and a half years of war pledged the people to do this. Telegrams to Fleets. "The president of the duma sent telegrams tel-egrams to the commanders of the Baltic Bal-tic and Black Sea fleets, to the chiefs of the armies on the northern, southwestern, south-western, western. Rumanian and Caucasus Cau-casus fronts and to the chief of the general staff, requesting that the army and navy preserve absolute calm and to be sure that the struggle against! the foreign enemy was not suspended) or weakened even for a single moment. The telegrams sent these commanders) added. i " As hitherto, the army and navy-must navy-must continue firmly and valiantly to defend the country, and while the provisional committee is aided by the military elements in the capital and with the moral support of the people in restoring calm and regular activity, each officer, soldier and sailor should fulfill his duty.' "The officers of the Petrograd garrison gar-rison at a general meeting unanimously unanimous-ly agreed to recognize the authority of the executive committee of the duma du-ma until the formation of a perm n nt government. "An imperial bodyguard regiment rode into Petrograd today. It is estimated esti-mated that there are now sixty thousand thou-sand troops in the capital. The political polit-ical prisoners in tho Scblucsselburg have been released " POLITICAL AMNESTY PROPOSED. LONDON. March 10, 6:55 a. m Deputy Kercnsky, the new Russian minister of Justice, has decided to frame a measure of general political amnesty, according to a Petrograd dis patch to Reuter's dated Thursday Grand Duke Nicholas, commander in the Caucasus, has telegraphed President Presi-dent Rodzianko of the duma that, in accord with General Alexietf, chief of staff, he had asked the emperor, in order to save Russia and bring the war to a successful end, to take the only step possible in the present fateful fate-ful circumstances. |