has become the subject of everyday conversations in queues and at the workplace. A police informant who works in Hamburg among women working in war time food kitchens, reports:

Everything is reserved for the rich, for the property owners. As soon as it comes to also making sacrifices, these ladies and gentlemen do not want to be the brothers and sisters of the working class anymore. The nice talk about ‘holding out’ only goes for the working class, the ruling class has already sufficiently provided for itself with its moneybag.

According to an American informant, the industrial working class in Germany

[h]as become sullen, dissatisfied with the government, almost rebellious. While the middle class remains intensely patriotic, parading before the casual observer a unified and determined Germany, fatigue of war ismaking alarming strides among the working people. A great many of these humble people want peace at any price... They have hungered, and grieved, and overworked for many months, with conditions steadily growing worse and with each promise of peace fading into an indefinite prospect of endurance.

Petrograd, March 16 (March 3, O.S.): Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich of Russia refuses the throne

Song: The “Workers’ Marseillaise” was one of the most popular revolutionary songs of 1917. The lyrics, set to the tune of the French Marseillaise, were written by the leading populist Petr Lavrov in the 1870s. In addition to serving as the anthem of the February Revolution, it served alongside the Internationale as an anthem of the Bolshevik-led Russian Soviet Republic until 1918.

In the early hours of March 16