Show STARVING HEL HELD 1 SURE IN RUSSIA Food Situation Dire for Winter Indications SIo Show London Oct OcL 26 Correspondence G. of oC the Associated Press A Press Press-A A winter of starvation Is a a. a sa safe sao prediction for Rus Rus- sia ala Indications arc are th that t It I wll will be bo one of oC tho the worst winters the Russian people peo peo- peo-I peo pie pic have hae experienced j In all 1 their his his- tor tory All MI l summer Bummer tho food tood In Russia particularly In Moscow Petrograd Petrograd Petro- Petro grad crad and other large largo cities cites has has- has been stead steadily 1 growing more sore and more acute In the tho latter later part of or August before betor the writer wrier left leU Moscow bread or that mixture of oC str straw w w. w oat husks anti and oth other r Ingredients of or unknown origin on- on orl- orl cm gin Cin which Moscow Inhabitants are In Induce Into In- In duce to accept as bread had almost entirely disappeared and certain city districts had not received the tho usual al allowance el- el lowance for nearly a a week Tho The government o ermen t had classified tho the population Into categories whereby and government so received a larger allowance while professionals pro pro- I and to do wel-to-do wel people get set the tho smallest which In Moscow losco amounts to sixteenth one of oC a pound In Petrograd Potro- Potro grad tho the bourgeois or middle class fared poorly on sn n allowance of or three herrings a day The shortage of or bread Is largely Irely due clue to the governments government's sighted short polI polIcy policy pol pol- I icy In fixing a n low price for tor grain which did not even en cover the farmers farmer's expenditure lot Jot alone profit pronto The peasants refused to comply with wih the decree and turn over all grain In ex excess excess ex- ex x- x cess of oC a a certain arbitrarily fixed amount to the tha food tool vand nd wh when n the tho latter later wore vero re-enforced re by bya a a. detachment of or armed bread crusaders crusaders cru cru- the peasants gathered from several villages lages and offered d resistance resist resist- ance anco frequently putting the crusaders to flight But even If It the government price were mu muth h higher the peasants would not willingly exchange their grain for tor worthless mone money of which they seem to have much and which has no nu practical practical value to them fhe They risey want manufactured manufactured man man- goo goods goodu which tho the l. l government government govern govern- ment Is unable to furnish as most of or orthe the ta factories are arc Idle hue Ile for lack of fuel tuel an l raw material and also because the need the tho workmen to fight on the numerous fronts |