Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-06-04 | Page 1 | 3,000,000 Bushels of Wheat in Russia Are Destroyed by Fire

3,000,000 BUSHELS OF WHEAT IN RUSSIA ARE DESTROYED BY FIRE "Prices are rising because the value of tha ruble Is falling. Ftua-sla'a Ftua-sla'a war cost has now reached a dally total of ls.00S.SO0.0os rubles " 1:5.00V eo.H. It Is the capitalists' capital-ists' fault that the Liberty war loan la not succeeding. The government gov-ernment must take all war profits. "The army needs 4&S carloads of food dally. During the early pert of April It received only eighty daily, but conditions sre Improving." y United Proas. PKTROGR A D. Juno 4- Foreet flrea In tho Minsk region have already al-ready burned over TOO acres, de-. de-. straying S. OOP, 600 bushels of wheat . and the big ele-ators at Ham toff, according to word received today. Tho flrea are believed to be of incendiary in-cendiary origin. Whether there waa loss of life haa not been ascertained. A vigorous vigor-ous Investigation la In progress. The provisional cabinet met today to-day at the home of former Mlnla-5 Mlnla-5 ter of " Commerce Kornavaloff." pleading with lm to withdraw hla resignation. Premier Kornavaloff wept In parting will i&e former cabinet member, as be refused. Tho workmen's and soldiers Journal, now all powerful In Petrograd, Petro-grad, complained editorially today againat further taauance of paper money by the government and demanding de-manding that all war profits bo confiscated by tho central authority. author-ity. "At the beginning of tho war there were l.eW.OOO.OOO rubles (approximately $m.MrX00t)) In paper pa-per in existence, the newspaper asserted. "Iasc January the amount waa .ooO.0OO.OHr rubles (approximately (ap-proximately $4,000.000,0001. Now it has reached a total or 1200.000. 000 rubles (SCfcOO OOO) and the government gov-ernment haa decided on aa increase In tbta by two billions. ' t