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Georgy Lvov, head of the Provisional Government duma

Nikolay Chkheidze, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet

British General Maude issued the Proclamation of Baghdad March 19, following his occupation of the city. It contains the famous line, “Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.” The citizens seem to welcome the British forces. Otherwise, both armies have halted; the British due to extended supply lines, and the Ottomans in preparation for another advancing enemy column.

The former Russian Tsar Nicholas II has been reunited with his family in the Alexander Palace, where he was greeted by disrespectful sentries as “Nicholas Romanov.” The Provisional Government Duma, although an equal, in theory, to the Petrograd Soviet, has been subordinated by a new decree that the Duma’s authority cannot conflict with the Soviets, but the reverse is not true.

In Serbia, the Toplica Uprising has been crushed, with thousands of civilians dead. At Monastir, the French assaults, begun last week, continue with no signs of success.