Show I RUSSIAN CONDITIONS GROWING WORSE I DAILY Y S Passenger Traffic on Railroads Railroads Railroads Rail Rail- roads Ceases Is Last Report By Associated Press STOCKHOLM I. I April Passenger Passenger traffic on Russian railroads has ceased ostensibly because of the spread of oC spotted typhus but hut really because there thero arc are no no locomotives to spare and because there is a great short shortage ce of or fuel tuel according to I I. I liessen Hessen Hessen Hes- Hes sen tho the former Cormer editor of oC the Petrograd Petro- Petro grad Thanks s to heavy bribing he has just managed to leave leavo I Petrograd which ho said was In I desperate straits At the tho work works where formerly formerly for for- merl merly men wore were employed only a very etT few Cow ow are arc now to be s seen en sal sail Mr fr Hessen to the Associated Press Sabotage prevails Locomotives cannot cannot cannot can can- not be repaired nor constructed Tho Time only one tho the Bolshevik have is valued at ruble rubles LIST L OF PRICES In Petrograd a piece of tirel firewood costs 4 rubles bread 20 rubles a pound moat meat 30 sugar ICO 10 and null butter butler the time same iame Maxim Gork Gorky tho the novel novel- nov novelist l- l 1st has at his disposition 10 rubles for fot printing printing- books and supporting supporting sup sup- porting authors and tutors but no books can be bo printed as long as paper is 5 rubles a pound Why h the Bolshevik regime has not notI fallen alien puzzles everyone particularly particular i tho the Do he themselves es Time after aftertime I I time timo the they have o expected their fall falland falland and prepared to quit but each cach time something happened that Improved ell I their chances Last autumn when Perm Perin was taken b by the tho Czechs when i armed forces Corces threatened from the Ukraine and the Narva and British i warship approached In time tho Baltic e was wa sure it was the he beginning beginning begin begin- ln- ln ning of the end And then instead came tho the invitation to Princes Princes' islands TROOPS DISOBEDIENT Not ot oven even 1 per Iter cent of or tho the population population population lation Is In favor or of Bolshevism Bolshevik Bolshevik Bolshevik Bol Bol- troops fight without knowing knowing- wh why but continue for fear of ot being shot If IC the they disobey If IC given an opportunity opportunity op op- op- op they desert at once An example of this was the tho action of oC what was considered a model regiment regiment regi regi- ment in Petrograd rad Tho The men of them were sent from their thell barracks barracks bar har- racks to the railway station to entrain for the Narva ana When hen the train arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived there thero were just eight men who had obeyed instructions to entrain aln If IC If there Is no Intervention soon pure anarchy will tIll rule Russia Trotz- Trotz 1 ky l y and are aro gradually lIy being pushed aside and real criminals TrotZ 1 will succeed to tho the places of oC p power |