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CITY OF DESPAIR. -

LIFE IN STARVING PETROGRAD.

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The special correspondent of The Morn ng Post wrote from Helsingfors on May 3rd:

Nearly all the city's factories are work- ing, but on a basis of limited production, and are operated almost solely in relation Thus it is that in to the food problem. the allotment of materials and the arrange= ment of transportation facilities it is the Femu various sources hero and in Riga Putiloff railway shops, the tractor. fast and Reral-three of the main vantage tories and the textile mills which te points from which foreign Powers are especially favoured. Food and how to get watching the assign situntina--[ -have! it is the constant, ever-urgen; thought of been able to secture during the past month every man, woman, aad. child in the city 24 picture of conditions in Petrograd as with the exception af the sojiljers and the they were up to the very last days of April. | Conuissiries,

My sources of information, apart from a mass of well authenticated reports, havoį consisted, first of the testimony of a gallant young Englishmair with a thorough know ledge of Russian who managed to join the Red Army and did on month's service as orderly in a military hospital in the former capital; scoil, of the testimony of

TOOD RUNTING.

The securing of food has been said to be the only real business at present going on in Petrograd. By various means of deception people cien procure two or three Suviet jobs in order to get extra ration tickets. Prices in relation to wages ara prohibitive. The Commanist, wage for a a renowned saniwiry expert who unofficially stenographer is equivalent to ste pound, visited certain Russian cities, including, one egg costs the equivalent of two shili Petrograd, in order to estimate upon what lings, matches are eightpence a box, a

a decision to send Male, in the event of

relief would huva pound of bread two and six, a pound of aid into the country, to be provided third, of first-hand data sugar äfteen shillings, a pound of butter gathered by the Esthonian General Staff which is stationed, a Reval, in close proxi- twenty-three shilings. These were the mity to Petrograd, with which since the prices on April 1st.

now a regular

A seientific analysis has been made of ration Esthonian peace there is limited rait,communication, and Emaily of the bread that was procurable on certain letters

ters written in English recently tickets in March, the saam bread as was from Petrograd be a lady of the urgeats then being issued to the Red arias, class and successfitly suggled out. I consisted of ID per cent birthed and the mairi the evidence from all four sources iflet and 30 per com, hent, the balance tallied: Appleation made by me for per-wing a compound of rye barley and pea In Tosno the chidren's asylum, mission to enter the former capital as a Bour. representative of tw: Mugning Pyst was already referred to, the only racions issued denied by Chiche in the Soviet Cominis op ninety children and seven adults were huskes millet and frozen potato. sary for Porriga Affairs.

Huiseleh is no longer available in Paten grad, because the horse have gone!

"VOLTEXSI HISRASE

It

speculators sell pork at the equivalent at fifteen shillings the pomul. However,, Petrograd's food problem is extremely com pliented and many angled, and should be considered in connection with the whole

ational food problem," and not separate affair."

INSANITARY CONDITIONS.

AN

One of the most striking facts in the Petrograd situation is that the city which now numbers 700.000, appears to be nearing an epidemic of cholera. That fifteen case airly east has isen officially admitted. The direct cause of the danger is that during the cold of last winter there was insufficient fuel of any sort, even wood, with the result that most of the city's

Life in Petrograd has become dreary and water "upply pipes froze and burst, and that since then no me has been found ditheult beyond degree. In the two years of making repairs and the population hav

and a half since the present regime estab been depending upon well and river water, Both these apples became, contaminated lished itself al culture, all refinement, all enjoyment of existener have disappeared with the writing of shows, upon which lay utterly Moss of the streets as one passes. all the accumulated filth of winter.

Petrograd as a city or single unit of atong them are malodorous, and there are opiation seem to have ceased to exist. comparatively few buildings of any sort It is broken up into group of independenwich, it is declared, it in nor a nauseating communities, each being one of the islands, experience to the newcomm sy the cora

Each i which are formed by the canals.

island lives to ibelf in all essential part rulurs, with little life, traffic, or commit and the new aristocracy of officialdon Bod

cation any longer passing from one to the

for..

to enter.

Matla because the trucks are niso used for Awere day by dapet me-quote.a..

Tiving

Only the sailors, about 33,000 who really dominate the former capital. of whom are stationed in Petrograd and living tolerable, and they for the most part This is de primarily to the find it.gay. other.

Of the As a final means of conveying some ideá collapse of the tramway service. 23 lines which formerly existed poly eight

Traments on April of what Buvict Petrograd actualy is, not the through karenow operating.

extremist from abroad passing, $2nd were scheduled to run at minne en through the eyes of some political intervals from eight in the morning, till city una personally conducted four by Zinovial, but as it is to ade x-us the evening, but-the-schedules go f

which les corre goods traffe, and frequently passenger letter written in traffic is brought to wandstill. Also it:

in my bands in the rule rather than the exception for across the line and a copy of which is now Conditions here are just the same any given line to be tied unvior several hours each day be reason of the breakdown: People are starving, bet, just as "patiently It is true that we Russians of several of the old rats, which are in use as before The entire life of the city seems to be know only her to do one thing well, which. decentralising and driftine into a curious; is to die." It sms that everyone gets used. to this sort of life. It is true that we kinil of tribai ate under the conditions.

DARKENED STREETS,

and save us. but we will not risk our There are no longer any street lights in still impatiently expect somebody to come Oh-idlers and į the of Petrograd,

illumination and

precious skins ourselves.

Forgive thoroughfares at night is solely by corner cowards, that is what we are bonfires, which are desultorily attended by for swearing, but I have good reason. people of the neighbourhoods themselves. I wish I could tell you all about it. and from one to another of which pedes have much to tell. How strange it weens The interior to me that there are countries where people trians grope their way. lighting is chiefly by kerosene from the old sleep and work quietly, and where they Imperial reserves, and is generally used have enough to eat! Do you know what by all classes, with floating wicks in and happiness is To be happy is to be able night lamp producing a ferhle, depressing to get food when you are hungry; to wash kind of glow. However, all three of the with real soap and hot water when you feel city's central lighting stations manage to dirty to light a candle or a lamp when maintain limited services in their respec it is dark and you want to see: to com tive stations. In one lighting district the unicate with the people you love to make station operates from five in the evening

quite sure that some day I shall again se til tonlu another, from nine in the even-ure that they are alive. If I were not ing till midnight: and in a third, only my boy, life would not be worth living from seven till nine in the evening.

any longer."

le the official State Asylum For Children at Tong, just outside Petrograd, waste- paper sharings are barned in basins to provide the only means of beating as well axillumination. Such a thing as private! or public entertaining is at an end. The schools in Petrograd were closed for tack af fuel on October 20th and did not re-open

LEAGUE OF NATIONS." REDUCTION OF ARMAMENTS?

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A dipbuitic correspondent, writes" "to"

until the inst week of March. Petrograd the Daily Telegraph'— University remained open throughout the winter, but with a very dwindled attend! The League's forthcoming activities will aace. Before Bolshevist control the school not be confined to the world Financial average Conference to be held next month(Júne) of International Law had an attendance of 70 students: under the same in Brussels. Prior to the meeting of this Profesor now as furinerly the attendance great useably there will be one of the is only tiro. The Students' Soviet of the League's Council in Rome. At this mees University recently remased three pro-ling, apart from domestic questions of Fensor*. The primary and secondary finance and administration, very import schools lack teachers and such agentinant issues may be discussed. If by that school materials as paper and pencils. The time Washington should have replied to sasin object of such tenching as there it is the invention by the Supreme Council to to inculcate Communism; but little pro- gress in this direction is believed to have accept responsibility for Arments, the been made on account of the universal question of the Armenian mandate will be inertia due to the lack of food. There is reconsidered. Little hope is entertained excellent authority for stating that, of America's acceptance of that mandat, though the school attendance of Petrograd but, on the other hand, there is a wide is probably numerically larger than it has felt confidence that, unofficially, American been, the actual learning by the private organisations will help generously. towards the financial settlement of thei pupils has never been less.

Armenian question, A BRUTAL JEST..

It would not be surprising if, at this The Government of Petrograd continues ia-the hands of Zinovieff, whose assassina-session, the problem of a general reduction tion was recently reported. His chief of armaments-wore tentatively explored by The fact in no activities, however, it appears, are no the League Council. longer given to municipal direction which generally known that a preliminary In- he has largely turned over to a young Jew vestigation of this question was under from New York named Karin, but to press taken a year ago by the Inter-Allied ing the Communist campaign, La March Military Board at Versailles, whose reports he made a second attempt to close the on the subject might be available for the markets, but was met by so violent League.

popular protest that he delayed the scheme Finally, in June, the International again. One of my informants, who has Labour Bureau of the League will hold a visited Petrograd, declares that some time conference at Genoa, where the topic of ago a delegation of women, each woman discussion will be the welfare of seamen, carrying a child in her arms, pained in their status and conditions of employment hearing with Zinovie to plead for food relief. The Commissary's answer is said to In particular, the intricate question-of whether the eight-hour-working day can have been: You say there is starvation we applied to the case of seamen, and if in Petrograd. I say there is you are gnawing stones for want of bread 80, how, will be most carefully studied. and eating your own children, then I shall The Genoa Conference will be to no sathers is famine and take the necessary country of more vital interest than to

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