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Show STARVATION STALKS IN SOVIET RUSSIA FAMINE SPECTRE REARS MENACING MEN-ACING HEAD WITH THE APPROACH OF WINTER. Problem of Food and Clothing Faces 8ovlet Leaders; People Suffering Now From Lack of Bread and Are Clothed In Rags. VJborg, l-'lnland. Flushed with success suc-cess mid confident of Poland's defeat, soviet ltusln faces the approaching winter with tho grim problem of food us Its supreme test of power. From tho fur eust to the Finnish frontier lOOO mllea of undisputed territory the spectre of starvation stalks threatening threaten-ing as tho far reaches give up u cry for the necessities of life from n people peo-ple whoso hearts, long sturdy In tho struggle for u "new day," are forced to heed the demands of want. A representative of u press association associa-tion who has Just arrived here has observed ob-served these conditions In crossing Itusslu and Siberia all tho way from Vladivostok f Moscow and Petrcgrnd. Ills arrival In Finland followed deportation depor-tation from Moscow, because the authorities au-thorities had not given advance authorization au-thorization for crossing Siberia. In Finnish surroundings he Is enabled to send uu uncensorcd account of the straits of the ltusslan people as hurriedly hur-riedly observed while ho and a number num-ber of refugees made thu first trip of Americans across Itusslu In thu last two yeurs. 'everywhere In all this trip, from one end of Kussla to the other, tho cry for food and clothing wns henrd. It was voiced by the old ltusslan pcusant type at the Chinese frontier, where the correspondent wns first brought Into ltusslan territory. It was heard again through the heart of Itusslu, whore the crews of locomotives were clad In rugged garments, with sandallike sandal-like shoes braided from the bark of trees. As they stoked their engines they begged for black bread from the group of foreign refugees who were passengers on the train from Moscow to the Finnish frontier. The appeal for the necessities of living liv-ing Is universal, except from the extra rationed das of higher military and civil government authorities. To Nikolai l.eulne, the soviet president, presi-dent, according to the accepted report In Moscow, Is attributed the statement that the Uussluu people cannot pass through another winter like the hist. |