| Show RUSSIA WAITS FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN SOON I 1 Holland H lland I T ter wells Tells or of f Less Than Thau Living Living Given Poor b by r Soviet Dr BI Drs Associated s Press i Amsterdam Feb 24 Conditions t. I among ng- ng the tiro soviet so t peasantry cost of or I lying 1 and scenes scones at Moscow and antI theother the thc theother I other soviet centers arc aro given h by the staff BUrr corr correspondent of oC tho the blad G. G who is 19 Just Hack froman from froman I an extended tour through h soviet let Russia Russia At the railway station In c the correspondent writes there is along a along long row of ot stalls In which people sit b behind hind little litHo barred windows and sell I all ally sorts of merchandise 1 noticed the prices One Ono pound of or salted meat was 30 rubles a pound of or black bread 00 rubles a I piece of 01 potato cake JO O rubles A t to tobacco tobacco to to- little water glass of bacco root was vas J JOO ru rubles Walt Waft for tor Som Something to Happen n nOn On the tho station platform one sees see tho the soldiers lyinG about amidst the s dirt which covers coveTS the ground They Thc roll ron their with bits bit of paper torn from n newspapers pl pers ana wait t J I patiently for what will happen appen next t. I By UBy tho the side of ot a big cat cash h register resister I stands ft l selling salted meat S jcak cake cak and pastry pastry- to the tho smartly dressed r men gathered s about her Th poor I d devils lying on the ground do not even evenI I J r notice It ft ft for they thc know VCr very well that in the new state there are rich men and poor men just as before belore to The communist government prices a Its Us skilled laborers at ru rubles les a month and the unskilled at least rubles But ho he who wants to keep his stomach filled needs at least thirty month thousand rubles a Cocaine Formed The correspondent found much vodka some of or it deadly stuff and great 4 lux luxury r- r in the messes and anel asserts that many of tho thoE E Russian officers have o formed the cocaine cocaine co- co caine calne habit This dru drug is so expensive he declares that it costs the addicts rubles a i del day to sniff their 4 cocaine Officers' Officers pay par he says ma may seen high r f at 00 to rubles a month and every sheet out of oC an old COP copy book If from which he may cut a dozen papers cost him two rubles o Ie Profiteering In Is Rife lUte Although h the tho correspondent had understood that in soviet let Russia all trade trado was classed as ns speculation and that the tho counter revolutionary re committee com corn severely punished hed every man I who sinned against the law he be found round that nobody seemed to mind and that one could get set almost any anything thins without tickets or coupons but for ex- ex prices I 1 afterward found the same flame think fin Moscow ho declared It was on a a. much greater scale The communistic laborer cannot g get t. t fifty grammes of I bread a a. da lay day but tho farmers como come into I t town all the same with their sacks of ot selling their stuff at fancy t prices t Living Conditions in Petrograd Intolerable able I Finland Feb 2 Re 24 tte- tte t orts Ports of or serious living lIvins conditions at I Petrograd ha have vo been received h by Prof ProC Hermann of oC Viborg showing i that typhus cholera and influenza arc taking taking- a hea heavy toll of tho the depleted depicted population Professor will have hl charge of or the Kussian Red fled Cross re re re- lid lief f work at Petrograd when Russia Is opened again to the outside world reports state slate that up to January Januar January Janu Janu- ar ary jo to 5 deaths in Petrograd were reaching reach reach- ing Ing a total of or a a. day da- The rhe coffin factories could turn out only 1000 coffins cotUna dally daily and most of oC the bodies l W were ro being carried into the tho countr country on sleds and left in the snow Man Many bodies were cre being dropped through the Ice into the tho river Neva eva Funerals were prohibited owing to tho the scarcity of or horses and because of 01 the depressing ctt effect ct of ot funeral processions on the people Livi Living Living- ng conditions ar are Intolerable said Professor Z Idler It costs thirty thousand Lenine rubles a a. day for food tood alone Petrograd at night is without light liKht and there Is veI very little drinking drinkin water |
