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Show people! starving Public Attention in the Northern Part of the : Country Centered on i the Bread Shortage; Allowance Is Reduced ; to a Quarter of Pound j j Daily for Each Person. I 4 EGGS A MONTH ; FOR CHILDREN i ! Little Ones Also Al- j lowed a Quarter of a ! Pound of Meat Each ! 30 Days; Banks Are j Closed, Transportation , Has Broken Down and I Commercial Stagna- tion Results. i ; VF.'V ROG RA D, .Tun. 2:1 Rlm'e t lie dis-i dis-i solution of the constituent assembly and I tlie disappearance of any immediate hope j of reconciling the striving political par-I par-I tics, public attention in north Russia is centered on the bread shortage, the lack .i practically all foods tuffs, the brcan-1 brcan-1 down of transportation and the oommer-1 oommer-1 cial stagnation as the result of the clos- i !ng of the banks. Moscow, Fetrogiad and all the larger J jellies of north Russia have little bread. The bread allowance ill Petrograd toil to-il (lav has been reduced to a quarter of a ij pound daily and the food commission has t limited eggs to children under i years. each child to have four eggs a month. Rut 1 eggs are not obtainable at any price. The t 1 commission also has limited fresh meal lo ' children between the ages of S and 12. 1 Willi a half pound monthly 10 each child.' Potatoes have been substituted for bread at Novgoiod and many other places in i north Russia, hut the cost is equivalent '.to IS cents per pound in Petrograd and consequently the masses of the people j cannot, bin- them. ; Suspension of Trains. A general suspension of passenger ; trains" began today in an effort to speed i I he transportation of foodstuffs from Si-j Si-j beria and south Russia to the north. Members of the railway men's unions are remaining at their posts trying to maiti-t maiti-t i-t.eansportation, but locomotives are , badly disabled and traffic is hindered by ,1 the masses of wandering soldiers from all i sections of the country, who insist that j their trains have precedence over freight. , Practically all trains arriving at Petro-: Petro-: grad are crowded with soldiers, the win-(' win-(' Jows in many of the passenger coaches T having been broken by the passengers to 1 gel air. Former bank employees in Moscow and ! retrograd still refuse to work under the t direction of the Sniolny Institute. AVith- drawals on checks are limited lo 500 ru-, ru-, bles to each depositor daily, and long lines form at the banks because of the j long delays and difficulties in getting ( money. Bolshevik agents are opening safe deposit boxes and confiscating hoard-1 hoard-1 cd gold and silver for the government -, and turning hoarded paper money into 1 current accounts for the owners. 3 Lack of Fuel. Sli'ppr cars ami litrhtins plains have 1 tiupcnla operations frequently in Pelro- Av.id hOLHUse of the lack of fuel, and ear 1 lines when -operating are so crowJert by MoMiers and refugees that much of the c rnllini,' stork, is broken tluwn. In Moscow 1 ihe i-ar Unes'aro in a worse condition than - here. Soldiers and sailors have become ped-" ped-" diers throughout north Russia and are niukinir excursions into the eountry and J ret urninc to the cities with bread, wheat. tobacco and suirar. Although tlie oity ( shops are without stocks, the streets are 1 lined with soldiers offering supplies at h'mh prices. Illuniiiuitinu oil is not ob-tainablo ob-tainablo in Potroratl and candles are selling at ?r rents per pound. One pound I of suuai' is allowed each person monthly by card at 2 cents per pouiul, hut suar houKht without a card costs 75 cents a pound. Flour is unobtainable at any :iricf-, and black broad when bought v!:h ards costM ' '-entrt a pound. wi:en .ivul-i;ile. .ivul-i;ile. Ih:-patch-s from many points In the Samara and Moscow districts report starvation. Thousands marched ye!erday !n a peaceful demonstration following the f'i-neral f'i-neral s'-rvlccs for M. Iou'vir.off, Siberian member of the const i tw-ti t assembly. an: the other vi urns of last Friday's demonstration. demon-stration. Tli city was qub-t iurUu' the flay, thf hulirl-ty anniversai'y of "LJioody Sunday," ,lai;uary !, 1',".. |