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FOOD CRISIS IN GERMANY.

SOCIALISTS MEMORANDUM.

The Socialist Deputies to the Reichstag, Fritz Ebert, and Karl Legion, on behalf

AN EMPRESS IN EXILE. SUFIET'S OFFER OF A POST AS TYPIST

There is deep human as well as histori- cal interest in the account sent to the

respectively of the GermanA Socialist Tageblats, of Berlin, from Yalta, by its

Party and the trade unions of Germany, special addressed a stern manorandum to the at the lipudent, Dr. Leo Lederer, in exila of the ex-Taariten Marie Imperial Chancellor on the food situation

The writer obviously has inti-

early in September. The document begins mate knowledge of what he describes, add

by mying:

hesitation between a vistor's elation

in all classes of the population regarding Empress gives his story an added interest. The increasing discontent which exists over a fallen toe and an Imperialist's almost superstitions reverence for an the inadequate food supply, and which reaches us in the form of bitter come the ex-Empress was at the Castle of In June, when his letter was written, plaints and demands, induces us re Again to call your Excellency attention Dulber, an hour's drive from Livadio, on the const of the Black Sea It is described under

nder as a three-storied Russo-Oriental palace, Avand in neighbouring houses were fifteen

At

your

which large masses of the population are with an anglicised interior. In the castle to the extremely critical conditions

repeatedly conveyed these complaints to members of the Romanoff family, incud

present compelled to live.

Excellency and their predecessors. Our proposals, unfortunately in most described as taller, and thinner than ever Oring the Grand Duke Nicholas who is cases, did not meet with sufficient not and with them was Prince Yussup, who sideration, and our serious warnings, not shot Rasputin. to increase the growing exasperation still further by unsuitable measures, wereswept

THE GALA UNIFORM. aside. The conditions of existence among were allowed to use their cars and tele At first the exiles were well treated, the working classes have thus grown.com-phones, and were well supplied with tinually worse.'

The memorandum then descants on the

money. In May, 1917, however, the

traffic in foodstuffs, and speaks of the topol Soviet, on the strength of an

have been increased.

search, and carried it out with great brutality. The search

Chief

abnameless usury which prevails in the order from Petrograd, instituted fantastic prices which have to be paid for

stole a con- boots, clothes, etc., and declares that all savings are used up in the mere effort to derable amount of jewellery, and one ex-Commander-in- maintain life. Prolonged under-feed soldier forced the ing. the document says, not only pre a touch of comedy in a sordid drama-

to exchange boots with him almost! daces increased mortality among children after this the castle was guarded by the the working and old people, bus men and women of order of the Soviet, but the exiles were

classes are suffering most

deprived instead of improving, things have latterly drive to church in hired cabe-probably grieviously in health."

of much of their freedom, The memorandum: then points out that, daughters married, the party had to When one of the Grand Duke Nicholne's got worse, and that the price of ruin a unique circumstance at an Imperial reduction of the bread ration, continues by a curious freak of Soviet mentality: On top of the wedding. The Grand Duke was, however, the document," came the reduction in the allowed to wear his full gain uniform. meat ration and the introduction of meatless weeks. The well-to-do' classes

"BE A TYPIST." were have overcome their privations by metas treatment of the party grew worse. They When the Kerensky Government fell the fourteen days in the mouth deprived of especially by one Jgnationko Darashaks, persecuted with petry insults, ment, while the promised substitutes are head of the Yalta Soviet, who reduced the become in an ice lysts. It is the peg hend, in paper money, which it was insuthicient.

Bread and potatoes have allowance of the exiles to £10 per week absolute duty of the responsible anthosi communication with the enter world. to change, and eat them off from ties to provide at least an increased ration When the ex-Empress pleaded for more of potatoes. Nevertheless, the, intention money or payment in coin she was told exists of putting the potato supply again by this Darashuka that there was for the coming year on the inadequats vacancy for a typist in the office of the basis of 7lb. per head per week

This Soviet, and she could increase her allow announcement is producing. fresh excite- ment among the people. Should its ance by taking it. exasperation find expression

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which we do not desire, the entire blame falls on the responsible authorities of the Empire. An increase of the potato ration even to 10lb. is to-day insufficient. We most urgently beg your Excellency to take all

mensares to bring about a substantial increase in the potato ration."

The

memorandum concludes: The Government is not unaware of the feeling among the population, and it should not be indifferent to it. There can be no doubt we are drifting towards a situation. which is bound to become fatal if the Government does not finally resolve to abandon all favouring of producers and take the vital needs of the people into account."

lives, from which they were only freed

when German Landsturm men occupied Yalta and replaced the Red Guard.

the ex-Empress nor the Grand Duke have

In spite of this, says the writer, neither | abated one jot or tittle of their anti- German feelings, and look on the presence tion. of German soldiers sa a bitter humilia- monarchy in some form as certain, and

Both look, on a restoration of refuse to count themselves among the politically dead. Both were at the time misfortunes with a heroism which moved in good health, and were bearing their the Germosa writer'a admiration.-Daily

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