OBLGATORY ORDINANCE
1) The city or Petrograd is declared to be in a state of siege.
2) All assemblies, meetings and congregations on the streets and squares are prohibited.
3) Attempts to loot wine-cellars, warehouses, factories, stores, business premises, private dwellings, etc., etc., will be stopped by machine-gun fire without warning.
4) House Committees, doormen, janitors and militiamen are charged with the duty of keeping strict order in all houses, courtyards and in the streets; and houses, doors and carriage-entrances must be locked at 9 o'clock in the evening, and opened at 7 o'clock in the morning. after 9 o'clock in the evening only tenants may leave the house, under strict control of the house committees.
5) Those guilty of the distribution, sale or purchase of any kind of alcoholic liquor, and also those guilty of the violations of sections 2 and 4, will be immediately arrested and subjected to the most severe punishment.
Committee to Fight against Pogroms, attached to the Executive Committee of the Soviet of Workers and Soldiers' Deputies.
[This is a reproduction in English of the Russian poster on opposite page.]
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