Show RUSSIA'S FORESTS BURNED BY PEASANTS Soviet oviet Ordered Them Cut for Winter Fuel but Workers Revolted v By HENRY WOOD United Press Pres Staff Correspondent PARIS IRIS RIS Oct 13 Russia's Russia's great forests for for- eats ests constituting one of f her most valuable valuable ble n natural tural tural resources resources resources' and and one of I the hE worlds world's last great Icat supplies of timber are being burned to the ground roun by bythe bythe bythe the nus Russian jan peasants In it an an effort to defeat de dt defeat de- de fe feat t bolt bols With the necessity of laying in hu hue e stocks tocks of wood and in order to 10 stave slave off the rigors of the coming winter the Soviets tl some time ago gave SIle orders for Cor the down and transportation of hu huge p sections of the Russian forests The peasants peN were recruited by force to do dothe dothe dothe the work ork This proved the last straw FIRE FORESTS To prevent t the e execution of this order the peasants have fired the forests Coresta and these forest fires are now raging throughout Russia In the most devastating degree Not only are whole forests being burned to the ground but bul scores of villages vU- vU lages and thousands of single Ingle houses that are In th thE path of the sweeping forest fires are disappearing In flames Detailed news of this thin action of or the peasants peasant has just been received 2 In Paris Pari b by M. M 1 from one of his hlll support supporters ers era still remaining in Russia The letter which tho the latter J has hits Just sent to Paris reads In part as follows follows- TIMBER GOING Tou know probably that Russia is fa burning t Enormous normous tracts of or timbered land ha have become the prey pre of flames names and both large and small m ll villages as al well ag as entire quarters quarter of larger cities are likewise likewise like- like wise disappearing ravaged b by the flames The Red Cock stalks stalk everywhere free And gay Y from one end of the country to the other All efforts to fight this scourge remain useless because the flu Rua- Rua slant peasant wants ants to burn and burn burns deliberately In Its despair and In Its hate the entire Russian peasantry S laa decided to fall faU back baek on this antique means mean of vengeance The The Red Cock against Cock against the I The Tice hate of the peasants against the I present regime has never before attained d the Intensity that It now has And It is I precisely at the present moment that the I Soviets so have proposed to prepare the stocks docks of wood and fuel necessary for heating during the coming winter The They have hA und undertaken a systematic cutting down of If the fore forests ta in the central ant and northern departments DEPLORABLE CONDITION The pea peasants peasant n burn 11 first fint th the tb oreata then them the tile villages village and fn finally aba fr completely the tho districts emigrating n gr g g. g I- I J To 0 add odd to t S1 d f t ti P. P ih I. I f l I I i i Ji-i Ji territory between Tambor to the e granaries gran- gran aries of nf th the olga Volga department of f and have hae suffered Immensely drouth from Even I en now nO the famine is IB IBIn growing g daily dally u II In the villages and clUe cities an and there ther nothing with which the tho people can clothe themselves We Ve Understand understand perfectly the a hate that the Uto resent present S1 StarvinG surrounds surround e aU aides e naked menaced b by death on n epidemics terror war ter er q by the commissaries wo we no ton monger longer cr have honor the honor and our to resist or our force dignity ore e sexist but we no lon longer er V live human life A A. where where- there w Is R. R dead city whereto phantoms ms which wee to have hwe havethe move the semblance mere of life In th the midst 01 of these hese shadows are to be seen een the tho com com- of f the people healthy well nourished and well clothed |