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There were intimations two days earlier that some political crisis was at hand, but they were so meagre and fragmentary that they gave no clue to the stupendous nature of the change in progress. It was on March 16 that the Provisional Gov- ernment issued its Appeal to the People, and this act may be accepted as the be- ginning of the established career of the new regime. For weeks all the news from Russia had indicated a state of unrest, dissatis- faction and imminent crisis. There were evidences of gross mismanagement in the distribution of supplies, the transport system was faulty, the munitions supply irregular, the hospital service subject to constant criticism. Finally food in the cities became so short that prices rapidly mounted to prohibitive figures, and the poorer classes were on the verge of star- vation. prev next |