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Show RUSSIAN PEOPLE FACMAT1 GRIM DEATH STALKS ON EVERY SIDE IN FORMER CAPITAL OF THE CZAR. Food and Fuel Supply Rapidly Being Exhausted as Winter Approaches, Houses Being Torn Down to Secure Fuel. Paris. A graphic, eye - witness description of the fearful conditions existing In Petrograd Is given by the Finnish Hed Cross In an appeal just Issued to the Red Cross societies of the world. It is accompanied by documents doc-uments prepared by Professor Zeidler, formerly head of the Petrograd Red Cross, but now a refugee in Finland. The documents, which reached the Paris bureau of American Red Cross on October 6, tell the story of the agony of a dying city. Petrograd' present population, based on the food cards. Is from 500,000 to 600,000, and the former capital of fine czar is described as having shrunk to one-fourth one-fourth Its prewar size. The report says : "Death stalks on every side, waiting wait-ing for winter to aid In the grim work of mowing down the 6ilent, hungry, sick and dying thousands. With streets and houses choker! with filth that Is already spreading spotted and intermittent typhus, the cold weatilier will, finish the task with pneumonia and abdominal typhus. "The fuel situation was never so bad. Wooden houses have been torn down for fuel. The material Is distributed distrib-uted equally among the population, but during the nights the more active citizens steal the quota of wood from others. "The wood yards have been nationalized. nation-alized. One of them has been given up entirely to the manufacturers of 30,000 coffins monthly. But even this number Is Insufficient. People have not time to bury the dead, and the bodies take their turn, waiting several sev-eral days." |