Show RUSSIANS rAGE FACE SPRING Suffering Will ill Increase as Roads Break Up i I I I I 1 II MOSCOW March 1 28 Russia Russia is approaching approaching ap ap- ap- ap her mot most mort season the season the early spring with spring with the realization in government government government gov gov- that her first ye yer year ear r of free rree trade trado under communism has not notI I j filled her warehouses with supplies of food toad to tide her over until th next harv har- har v ve at I With foreign aid ald principally American devoted largely to relieving the terrible distress in the Volga and Ukraine famine regions Russia promises to be unable to feed teed the rest of ot her vast population dui during dur- dur ing the spring and summer and according accord accord- ing to official government predictions even next years year's harvest probably will wUl be bad The early spring months before the first harvest is in and when the sleigh traffic vanishes along with the snow and the thaw makes the highways Impassable impassable im- im i passable will be the test both for rol food rood j jand and fuel tuel Even lIven now with the roads In good condition Moscow Petrograd and other large cities are short of food tood The government warehouses may have enough to dole out to the red army and favored for some months The I II Irest rest of at the population Is dependent Oil on food tood brought in by traders I Each spring for the past five lve years ears I however a similar crisis has been met metin j jin I in some way Foreign aid ald grain from i I abroad 0 is now hoped e for o but not confidently con con- l tt 1 1 expected by the h soviet ov I leaders e i iThe The fuel shortage looms up even more more prominently than the lack of food The I Donetz basin Russia's great coal fields showed Increased yields during the early earl I winter when by a a. special drive food was secured for the miners Now the famine in the Ukraine and the general lack 01 oi ot food and transportation elsewhere all a have contributed to cut down coal pro- pro I again Without food the miners I cannot work I Similarly in Siberia and Turkestan accordIng according ac ac- according ac- ac I cording to the newspaper Economic Life a lack lacle of fuel is 19 responsible for failure to I move food to central Russia i Owing to the lack of ot supplies in government government gov gov- govI government I warehouses the number of persons persons per per- sons rationed by the state has just been further reduced from tram to 11 II- Including the red army armr Only July these in all Russia receive the ration All others ethers are dependent on their I Iown Iown own meager harvests if Ir peasants or in I I what they can buy if city dwellers I I |