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Show ANTI-GERMAN IS THE REVOLUTION . Dumbfounding Is the News of the Abdication of the Emperor. WASHINGTON. March 15. The overthrow of the Russian autocracy was accepted in all quarters here as a cmpleote victory for the anti-Gcr-, man sentiment in the empire, removing remov-ing virtually all chance of Russia beinc drawn away from her allies into a separate peace. The sensation ereated by the news of the Successful revolution. the turing out of the ministry and the i arrest of pro-Germans, was followed: by another more profound when press dispatehes announced the ab-: dication of Emperor Nlhcolas The revolution was not wholly 'unexpected, 'unexpect-ed, and before noon today the state department received meagre official information abaut it from petrograd. J But the abdietion of the emperor was dumbfounding to both official and diplomatic circles. It had been assumed that in spite; of the belief that the emperor, influenced in-fluenced by his German wife and proTeutO&lc advisors, was lukewarm or worse in the support of his al-, 1 lies, he would be permitted to con 1 j tinue nominally as the head of the ' new government. Neither officials ! nor diplomats could understand what 'the revolutionary leaders expected toj 'accomplish by shifting the crown According to one usually well in-formed in-formed diplomat, the Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch proclaimed regent, has been a bitter personal antagonist of the emperor since the latter refused to recognize his mar-j riage to a divorcee some years ago.! .Moreover, the grand duke is said to' m.i opposed the emperor on every public question that has arisen. nn |