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Show TRAVELING IN RUSSIA FULL OF DRAWBACKS I Special Cable to The Tribune. ! LONDON, April 29. A British business man, writing to a London newspaper from Copenhagen, says: A journey to Pefrograd in war times is one which Is full of more or less trying experiences. The train leaving Stbcliholm at night follows the coast to the northern end of the Bay of Bothnia as far as Ka run era. Swe-icn, close to the frontier fron-tier river, Tornea. and the journey ac cupies two nights and the intervening interven-ing day. From Hnpraandn you are driven in slen,e?s with your luggage across the frozen river and in about fifteen minutes min-utes you rea ch Tornea. It is here, at the eloped gates to Finland, that the formalities begin. You give up jour Passports and enter the Finland customs house, the doors of which are kept locked and harred during the whole time the traveler is under examination. ex-amination. The whole systernx is repented when you leave Finland and enter Russia at B.lelo-Ostrow. Vou are not allowed to t;tke more than $25 in cash in or out of Finland and your money is counted when you enter the country and when you leave it to pass into' Russia, as well as when you return to Finland. Fin-land. The restaurants In Finland aro excellent ex-cellent and, with the exception of sugar, of which .vou a re only served with three lumps, you do not notice jrnv scarcity of food. You can get wine and beer, but at 30 cents, and a bottle bot-tle of champagne at about Sir"'. You are due to arrive in Pefrograd Pefro-grad at 10 p. m.. but it is often midnight mid-night or later when the train steams In. The traveling is comfortable, but from the moment you pass from Finland Fin-land into Russia you are enllrelv wi thnut a Icohol. There are. however, how-ever, numerous non-alcoholic fruit wines, a special fruit "champagne." a npruaehing In -taste a fairly good Italian asti spumante, costing S12 a bottle. There ia also a popular beverage called kvasl, one of the numerous Ingredients of which is ground bread. U is cheap and most nourishing, but has not yet supplanted sup-planted weak .tea in tumblers with slices of lemon. The hotels in Russia are greatly over-crowded by refugees from Poland . and the other war zones and the wiso traveler is he who engages his rooms at least a week beforehand and. if possible, through friends. In Petro-grad Petro-grad it la more apparent than it is in Finland that Ihe supply of food, as well as of fuel. Is irregular and in many cases insufficient. This is mostly due lo the lack of railwoys. as there is plenty of food in this enormous country, but the difficulties dif-ficulties in the way nf transporting it from the often remote places seem to he almost Insurmountable. |