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In 1917, just before the overthrow of Kerenski by the Bolsheviks, my inform aat, whom I will call Mr. X, who found that his once Bourishing business had become moribund, and that his financial resources had dwindled, decided to go to some quiet spot in the provinces. to let the storm blow over. Taking with him a trunkfal of the usual things, he went to a small town on the Upper Volga. prettily hidden away, among enormous forests and far away from the highways of traffic. Nearly immediately followed the Bolshevik coup d'état, which plunged the whole of Russia into a turmoil of strifo.

Mr. X, with philosophic calm, moved his residence to a village forty five miles further away, in the very midst of the forest. He decided to wait there

He little! for the storm to blow over, thought then that it would be four years. before he would be able to leave his sylvan retreat. Events moved quickly, and very soon the Soviets were also estab lished the small town,

Mr. saw that it was necessary prepare for a stay of some length. He very wisely decided that his best plan would he to lead a life similar to that of the peasants around. He became a pea sant himself. For a amal! sum he secured the tenancy of a little log-hut, all crooked with age and black with soot. But the SEAMEN'S roof was yet sound, and there was most important thing of all, a very good large Russian stove of enormous dimensions. taking up nearly the whole available space is the but. One small window, less than a foot square, gave some light,

ROBINSON CRUSOE IN RUSSIA.

to

This was to be the abode of the British Robinson Crusoe on his lost island in the The penannts were heart of the forest. geoerally friendly. Mr. I spoke their language perfectly, and dressed, in the Name manner as they and ale the same. kind of food. The local Soviet, formed by the peasants to comply with the letter of the decrees, never troubled him much. and he made fast friends of the village carpenter, the blacksmith, and other aris tocrats, who protected him efficiently against outside intervention. The cli- mate. Bays Mr, I was wonderfully it ricorating, and assisted him in bearing his great privations. These,

As time went on. became gradually greater. The clothes and various odds and ends in his trunk he gradually bartered against flour, out of which, in his Inrge Rove Faked his own course black bread, By the by, it may be remarked that on the ten of the same stove Mr. X slept in comparative warmth through the long and biterly cold winter nights. Of other food, except bread, Mr. X saw bat little -a few vegetables during the summer months and a mortel of meat from tin to time. But for the lust eight months of his life in the village our Robinson

so Crusoe existed on bread alone, and that in quite insufficient quantities. To exist

was arcessary to work very hard. Especially trying was the necessity of preparing fuel for the winter period. For a man of 60 it is difbeult to start chopping wood all day long in the forest. and then carrying it a long distance to his but on a small sledge when the snow had fallen.

The peasants were of the usual "inert Russian type. They sometimes spoke about the good old days, but seemed in- capable of putting up an active opposi tion to the Bolsheviks. In fact in the first

two years they did not feel the winch very much. Money was coming in freely for milk. butter, eggs. and other pro ducts. so the ever-growing priera for manufactured articles troubled them but fitele. But then the supply of these articles began to give out. With harket fuls of paper money (for this was that way of keeping it the nrakant dis covered that it aried them hul title, for there was nothing to buy. Mr.

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ministrations with the usual authority over his flock. The school suffered more. New school-books were received, and a new Communist curriculum was prescrib ed. But this did not much matter, be- cause the children did not frequent the classes with great assiduity. To create for Mr. X an official position the village. Soviet appointed him master of English and French. With a gentle smile Mr. X remarks: But the children did not come."

SCARCITY OF NEWA

News from the outer world came bub sparingly. For the first year Bolshevik newspapers and propaganda came in con- aiderable quantity, aut this quickly fell off, and in the last year a rare copy of the official newspaper reached the village library. In this library, on dust-laden shelves, stood rows of Communist pam- phlets, which nobody ever read. was that the Allies had begun an offen rumours there were plenty. One day it ive, on another that Lenin had fled, on

Of

third that the King of America" had "declared war, Mr. X confesses that under the debilitating influence of a half-starvation diet people lost all their Kety, and their interest in things out- Once side their immediate interests. there was a great alarm. A forest fire had braken out near the village, and the flames were

blown towards it. But the wind veered, and the houses were

being

saved.

By some miracle, in May of this year, Mr. hard in his retreat of the signa ture of the trade agreement with Eng- allowed to leave Bumia. Putting some land; and that British subjects were of his black bread into a bag, be tramp ed the forty-five miles to the small town, and

presented himself to the local It took him some day's to Authorities. obtain the ear of the potentates. At last he found himself, always with his bag of bread, on board a train going to Moscow. The old, ricketty earrings wan full to overflowing with passengers and

luggage.

age. There was not a single

describes the state of penury which the the pane of glass in the windows, and

village had reached in the last year of bis residence in it. There were no means

to produce artificial light-nu candles, the doors swing open

ab every halt.

no nil, no lamps, no wicks. During the After an exhausting journey Mr. X long evenings people were obliged to sit found himself in Moscow, not knowing in dark rooms with the fire of their stares alone to lighten the gloom. These fires it was important to keep going without interruptione na long as possible for matches were very precious, and on the average one could not obtain more than a sinal box per inhabitant every quarter

NO SALT, NO SOAP.

where to go for food or lodging. At last he found a sort of asylum in an empty building, where several hundred unhappy homeless people were allowed to pass the night on the filthy, slimy, Boer. Clutch- ing all the time his bag. Mr. I started on a round of the Bolshevik offices, upon which his liberation finally depended. One official turned him over to another, A great fliction was the dearth of and so on in an endless chain of super- salt, People talked about salt, dreamed red-tape. The officials seem to have been. about it as if it was the most precious somewhat staggered by, the sudden ap thing in Aladdin's cave, Soap was prac-pearance of this venerable gentleman tically unobtainable. The few pieces one from the wilderness, who is gentle, got contained more sand than anything patient voice, claimed his rights under else. One can easily imagine the filthy the trade agreement. After six dags which the bodies of people had Mr. X got his permit. Six days on a state to remain, and the grimy appearance of terribly slow train brought him to Petro- their linen. New textiles were a rarity. grad, where he had to spend a further So everybody, went about in rags, ugly twelve days in obtaining the necessary and smelling evilly. Nails could be permits. His bread was becoming very obtained only at fabulous prices, and the stale and old by then, he is obliged to peasants have returned to the wooden admit. pegs of their forefathers whenever pos- sible. Pins.. needles, thread, glass, and hundreds of other articles which we have auch plenty that we do not even think of them, word practically not to be had, Verily, life was passing far away from the solitary village. Mr. X in his gentle way remarks: "This was my luck really

ΜΕ Σ says that, after four years, he was struck by the horrible change in the appearance of Moscow and of Petrograd. They were not the same town-empty, deserted streets; dilapidated: crumbling houses; all shops closed. the people in the streets all locking dejected, walking along with a furtive look. Mr. X began to regret his Crusoe village and its un- And so it was, for except for a few kempt peasants. At last he was free, Bolshevik propagandists the villagers and, having crossed the Finnish frontier, were pretty well left alone by the men he received from the British Consul his in power. The church remained intact; pass and passage to England. "It was the village priest, after a few days not so dreadful after all, but, all the Arreal, was at free, and carried on his zame, I feel these four years in my body

(Continued at foot of next column.),

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