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Show SMS BOLSHEVIK PHISJ1ISE Legation Attaches . Reach Stockholm on the Way From Moscow. Czecho-Slovaks Hold Railroad Rail-road From Olovyanna to Penza in Siberia. STOCKHOLM. Saturday, Kept. 7. (Py the Associated Press.) The American refugees from Moscow reaehed Stockholm touav twelve davs alter their iW'l';iiture from' the Bolshevik capital. In Finland the Americans were impressed by the or-derlv or-derlv conditions. When the Americans left Russia, they sav. flour sold at SI. 25 a round and was seldom obtainable at any price. Sugar, also scarce. -old at $3 a pound. The rei'ueees say that starvation had become so prevalent in Moscow that late in August the food commission was forced to remove all regulations on citizens and permitted them to enter the city with sixtv pounds of food each. This step, it was asserted, was an admission of the absolute failure of the fool commission, which had no bread and was forced thro'ish the pressure of t he rebelling citizens citi-zens to let the people take the food supply sup-ply into their own hands. Peasants Withhold Grain. TV heat nnd o:her crams were not available, avail-able, a? the peasants in the praln sections sMll under soviet control refused to feed the cities. Potatoes and other vegetables were saline at 25 cents a pound. They are chief food supply of Mos-eow and Fetrocrad. T'.";e workmen of Moscow and Petroprad fa-tori cannot obtain food from the commission, which has a1vi&ct them to shoulder rifles and take the prain auav from the peasants. This advice has seldom sel-dom been heeded, as a majority of the workmen regard the peasants as brothers. Faith Is Waning. V."holPsn'e charges hy 'he In1hevic new.-ripprsi that the hourcoll- fire who'.'.v responsible for the food shortage no longer nuie: the hungry laborers, v!:o'! faith in the Eolsheviki is wann c arnre-ci arnre-ci ibiv. The promises of T.on Tro;zky, fhe Foishevik fore-.n minister, to r.ie rzechn-Slovak risme and tao the s.i"-n''- of wheat no longer are generally e'ed- K'lS-f-'.a. the refucees say. has a b':mner whPat' and rve crop in virtually alt the grain sections. Mu'-h of the r.n has a.rpai v bpen !.arv-s: e'l. hu t 'he B"Wn--viki have neither t''1'- o-janii-ition nr the transportation facili'W to obtain r.r.M-1 f,,r the srarvir.e oities. which ir . v .an te pxpeotd to dr.iir through a bread-It-si winter without turn.nc asunst a cov. emn-er.i whose policy has Icat the whct di.-.tr:o:3. I |