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Show jliltiis 1 MBM FAME Maize Alone Is Diet, and This Will Last Only Until May. ! PETROORAD, Wednesday. Jan. 2:.. British officers who have made a thor- j o'.ih investigation of conditions in Ru- j mania reu;mKl to Fctroi;rad today and i save an account of i he food situation j there. They said Rumanian peasant ! women have neen almost starving tor j months or exiMinir solely on maize. The i effect is shown particularly among newly- i born children, many of whom are de- ; formed. ! The effect, of starvation on fnrtire sen- ! orations is causing more concern to the officials than the present sta te of a t - j fairs. .The Rumanians have sufficient i maize to feed the peasant population until ; May, but this diet by itself will not give proper sustenance. Notwithstanding this and other priva- j lions, the Rumanian army is maintaining discipline. Information from authoritative authorita-tive sources emphatically contradicts ru- ; mors of any pronounced movement against King Kerdinand. It is declared that only the smallest minority seeks to over tii row the Rovcrnmen t . Rumanian troops are aiding the Russian Rus-sian commander in the gradual demobilization demob-ilization of the Russian army on t lie Rumanian Ru-manian front. The Rumanians are on guard a.gainst marauding bantis of Russian Rus-sian soldiers, insisting that all give tip their arms before being released from their units. A battle occurred four miles from Jassy between Ukrainian and Bolshevik Bol-shevik forces. It lasted for eight days. The Bolsheviki seized the important railway rail-way junction of Harkov. Owing to happenings such as these, it is very difficult to send food to Rumania or to the Ukrainian cities and the western and northern Russian fronts. Some food is now moving from Ukraine to north Russia Rus-sia 'by special agreement, but transportation transpor-tation difficulties are growing. Increased sentiment in favor of the Bolsheviki is reported in Ukraine, although al-though the Bolsheviki there are not connected con-nected officially with those of Petro-grad. Petro-grad. An attempt to assassinate Lieutenant General ttcherbatchef f, commander of the Russian forces in Rumania, was defeated de-feated on December 20. Several persons were killed recently in a battle at Kiev, brought on by an attempt at-tempt on the part of sailors to compel officers to give up their epaulettes. |