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Show LIVING CONDITIONS IN PETROGRAD ARE REPORTED TERRIBLE STOCKHOLM, Thursday, Dec. 5. (By the Associated Press.) Fugitives from Russia who have reached here say that living conditions In Petrograd are terrible. ter-rible. The famine there, they say, defies de-fies the Imagination. Flour is selling: for &0 rubles and butter and sugar for K0 rubles per kilogram (2.2 pounds). Herrings Her-rings are the only food obtainable and sell for 5 rubles each. All middle-class elements are excluded 1 from public eating houses and are dying , of starvation by thousands. Hundred u are buried each day between 6 and 9 : o'clock In the morning, no funera.is be-i be-i ing permitted later during the day. ! Of a normal population of two mll-j mll-j Hone, only a half million persons are left In Petrograd. The city looka deserted. There Is yreat. nervousness in the neutral neu-tral legations. The Polish legation has been looted, while the Swiss legation has been entered en-tered forcibly. The personnel of this legation le-gation has left Petrograd. |