The fact that Michael Rodzianko, president of the Duma and one of the leading advocates of liberalization of the Government, was named as the chief figure in the provisional government, showed that the movement is in the hands of the same forces which had demanded the overthrow of the bureaucracy and a more energetic prosecution of the war. There were many changes in the Russian Government during the war, although the censorship was enforced so rigidly that the significance of the rapid shifts was apparent. Vague reports reached the outside world of high councilors of State who were obstructing instead of assisting the work of carrying on the war, and the strength of German influence at Petrograd. The most conspicuous case of this sort was that of General Soukhomlinoff, former Minister of War, who was dismissed from office and imprisoned as a result of charges of criminal negligence and high treason. M. Sazonoff, Russia's Foreign Minister at the beginning of the war and an ardent believer in the prosecution of the war, was deposed early in the reactionary regime and sent as envoy to London. It was suggested that the motive for this was not to honor an anti-German, but to get him out of Russia. MEMBERS OF THE RUSSIAN CABINET. The members of the Russian Cabinet, as announced for the Provisional Government, were: Prince Georges E. Lvov, well known as president of the Zemstvos' Union, Prime Minister. Alexander J. Guchkoff, Minister of the Interior. Paul Milukoff, well known as a Constitutional Democrat leader, Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. Pokrovski, Minister of Finance. General Manikovski, chief of the Artillery Department, War Minister. M. Savitch, Minister of Marine. M. Maklakoff, Minister of Justice. M. Kovalevski, Minister of Education. M. Nekrasoff, Minister of Railways. M. Konovaloff, Moscow merchant, Minister of Commerce and Industry. M. Rodischneff, Secretary for Finland. M. Kerenski, Minister without portfolio. The executive committee of the Imperial Duma, as the provisional Government styles itself, is composed of twelve members, under M. Rodzianko, including two Socialists, two Conservatives, three Moderates, five Constitutional Democrats and Progressives. Constantine I, King of Greece, who abdicated in favor of his son, Prince Alexander, on June 11, 1917, under pressure from the Allied countries, was born in 1868. His father, King George, was assassinated at Salonica on March 18, 1913. The abdication of King Constantine in June, 1917, was due to his opposition to the forces in the government which desired to join the Allies in the war against Germany. The influence in favor of the Germans in the royal family of Greece was Queen Sophia, a sister of the Kaiser.