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Show IRON HAND OVER WORKING CLASS Petrograd Police Find People Undeterred by Warnings to Stay Inside Doors. STREETS THRONGED Cheer Cossacks and Foot Soldiers Sol-diers Who Cheer Back in Camaroderie. LONDON, March 16. Further details de-tails of the events preceding the revolutionary revo-lutionary coup In Petrograd are given in a Reuter dispatch from the Russian capital. The dispatch says that the working Class had decided on "peaceful ' street demonstrations on Saturday. Early on aiurnay morning trie police warned the citizens not to leave their houses, as it was not safe. In other words, the food demonstrators were to be suppressed sup-pressed with an iron hand. I'nde terred, however, by this warning the i people came out in such numbers that ! the Nevsky Prospect and other main thorouehfaros were thronged. Th crowds were mostly from the middle elasses. as the roads from the labor district were barred. The people were so good-natured and jovial that the authorities believed at first that the day would pass in peace. Nevertheless, Neverthe-less, they took precautions by sending for reinforcements Crowds Cheer Troops P;itroI after patrol of Cossacks, mounted, and foot soldiers am! police lined the Nevsky Prospect and the courtyards of the houses were filled with reserves. The crowd, still good natured, cheered the troops and Cossacks Cos-sacks warmly as the soldiers showed themselves appreciative There was an unprecedented feeling of camaraderie camara-derie between the populace and tho troops. Cossacks doffed their hats repeatedly re-peatedly to the cheerers and some groups of soldiers cheered back at the crowds. It was a sign of the tims which the authorities, however, failed to read. oo |