Show MOSCOW IS CITY OF IMPRISONMENT I FOR ALL r Center Lively but butAH So Soviet All AH Are Arc Under Arrest Sometime t Finland Russian Russian 1 Fron- Fron Associated Press 20 0 By tier Aug LA LAfirst rl A first hand view of ot Petrograd and andI I those two centers of ot soviet so Moscow Mosco outside which are sealed against observers ule ula was obtained b by the tho Associated Ase As- As e Press correspondent Just to his deportation to this point prIor Sow roseo is a city teeming with ac- ac acI I and bazars I streets squares Jt Us its tl lt tartly crowded with ith people and with little outward evidence of or distress except W the dall dally daily struggle ot of f people seeking thel Allotted allotted quota of or of food But Petrograd once one o of the tho busiest fid end and gayest capitals In tho the world Is Isa Isa isa a city of or deserted streets with only scattered groups of oC people In those which were formerly the centers Scenes of ot greatest activity BOULEVARD DESERTED I Traversing the tho entire length of ot the kl c formerly the grand boulevard running from the Neva I river one passes fewer than a hun hun- r died people Along the banks of ot the Neva Veva from the winter p where Nicholas was last seen alive down downto to the bridge cord- cord woo dis riled plied alon along the beautiful marble and stone bal balustrades und and I throughout the streets It is being unloaded rom barges by enforced la la- la bor After Alter the com conscript labor fin finishes I it Its days clays work worle groups of or men and women gather tather through lh the night to carry cury away stray bits o of wood re remaining rev rc- miming for Cor their winter supply of ot fuel Cuel Women arc art among the workers workers workers work work- ers on the barges barbes standing waist waist- deep In tho the waterlogged craft and handling crosscut saws The Tho food prices at Petrograd arc are generally about 15 IS per cent higher than at Moscow l where at the end of oC Jul July beets sold for tor rubles a pound The American dollar r Is worth about two or three throe thousand depreciated rubles Pork then was selling for tor rubles sugar salt alt 1000 black bread bred 1000 small white bread rolls each potatoes rubles and eggs each PRISONS FULL An atmosphere of ot military rule role permeates Moscow l more than an any of ot the other cities titles The population Is under constant nervous strain and few tew are arc able to avoid arrest b by the constant severe nervous strain and few tew are able to avoid arrest by the supreme counter revolution commit commit- tee Persons disappear Into prisons and no char charges are preferred against them If It the they are finally set free tree freethey freethey thc they encounter the greatest difficulty In living tI Tho The popular saying In the city Is that Moscow's population Is divided Into three classes Those who have been Imprisoned th those e In i prison and those who will be At present Moscow Is In a gala new red reel dress dross entertaining delegates to lo the third Banners and posters appear containing propaganda propaganda ganda of ot all s sorts and In many languages which arc are as little valued apparently as the new proletariat money printed In eleven en languages A five thousand ruble note of ot this Issue buys bus only a pound of ot salt pork |