Show TEN CIGARETTES BUY WEEKS WEEK'S FOOD By Associated Press WITH AMERICAN FORCES ON ONI DWINA n Jan n. n A A tobacco 0 famine m has become o so pronounced on i in the I territory along the Dwina and Vaga rivers where Russo Russo-allied troops are operating that the peasants are willing will will- I ing to exchange most anything they have for small quantities of tobacco or cigarettes I The correspondent went vent ashore with witha a packet of ten very ery bad cigarettes I I and secured In exchange twelve eggs a half bushel of potatoes and ten tens pounds of cheese The Russian I peasant has been an inveterate smoker for nearly a century During the past six months the tobacco I growing country in the south has been cut off and the supply was soon I exhausted The peasants have hae been smoking tea leaves tree leaves and dried moss Money is virtually worthless in transactions transactions transactions trans trans- actions with the peasants ten cigarettes cigarettes cigarettes cig cig- cig- cig I going much farther than a hundred rubles in the purchase of produce i |