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Show AMERICANS REACH SWEDEN1N SAFETY PARTY FROM PETROGRAD AND MOSCOW REPORT BOLSHEVIK POWER IS WANING. Starvation Has Become Prevalent in Moscow, Peasants in the Grain Sections Refusing to Supply Food for Cities. Stockholm. The American refugees from Moscow reached Stockholm Sat' iirdny twelve days after their depart" :ure from the Bolshevik capital. In Finland the Americans were impressed by the orderly conditions. - When the Americans left Russia, they say, flour sold at $1.25 a pound !and was seldom obtainable at any iprice. Sugar, also scarce, sold at $3 a pound. The refugees say that starvation bad become so prevalent in Moscow that late in August the food commission commis-sion was forced t" remove all regulations regula-tions on citizens and permitted them to enter the city with sixty pounds :of food each. This step, it was asserted, as-serted, was an admission of the absolute abso-lute failure of the food commission, which had no bread and was forced through the pressure of the rebelling citizens to let the people take the food supply into their own hands. Wheat and other grains were not available, as the peasants in the grain sections still under soviet control refused re-fused to feed the cities. Potatoes and other vegetables were selling at 25 cents a pound. They are the chief food supply of Moscow and Petro-grad. Petro-grad. The workmen of Moscow and Petro-grad Petro-grad factories cannot obtain food from the commission, which has advised them to shoulder rifles aud take the grain away from the peasants. This advice has seldom been heeded, as a majority of the workmen regard the peasants as brothers. Wholesale charges by the Bolshevik newspapers that the bouregoise are wholly responsible for the food shortage short-age no longer quiot the hungry laborers, labor-ers, whose faith in the Bolshevik is waning appreciably. The promises of Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik foreign minister, to quell the Czecho-Slovak rising and tap the supply of wheat no longer are generally credited. Russia, the refugees say, has a bumper wheat and rye crop in virtually virtu-ally all the grain sections. Much of the grain has already been harvested, but the Bolsheviki have neither the organization or-ganization nor the transportation facilities fa-cilities to obtain bread for the starving starv-ing cities, which scarcely can be expected ex-pected to drag through a breadless winter without turning against a government gov-ernment whose policy has lost the wheat districts. |