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Show SUGAR SOLD AT 1 13 PER POUND American Refugees Report High Prices in Finland Flour $1.25 a Pound. STOCKHOLM. Saturday, Sept. 7. (By the Associated Press.) The American Am-erican refugees from Moscow reached Stockholm today twelve days after their departure from the Bolshevik capital. In Finland the Americans were impressed by the orderly conditions. When the Americans left Russia, they say, Hour sold at a dollar and twenty-five twenty-five cents a pound, and was seldom obtainable at any price. Sugar, alsoj scarce, sold at ?3 a pound. The refugees say that starvation had become so prevalent in Moscow that late in August the food commission was forced to remove all regulations' on citizens and permitted them to en-1 ter the city with sixty pounds of fooJ each. This step, it was asserted, was an admission of tho absolute 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 re- fused to feed the cities. Potatoes and other vegetables were selling at 25c a pound. They are tho chief food supply of Moscow and Petrograd. I The workmen of Moscow and Petrograd Petro-grad factories cannot obtain food from the commission which have advised them to s houlder rifles and take the Buuu iiway irom tne peasants. This advice has seldom been heeded, as a majority of the workmen regarded the peasants as bro'thers. Wholesale charges by the Bolshevik! newspapers that the Bourgeoisie are wholly rosponsiblo for the food short-ago short-ago no longer quiets the hungrv laborers, lab-orers, whose faith in the Bolsheviki is (waning appreciably. The promises of Leon Trotzky, the Bolsheviki foreign minister, to quell the Czecho-Slovak rising and tap the supplv of wheat no longer nrc generally credited. . Russia, tho refugees say, has a bumper bum-per wheat and rye crop in virtually all the grain sections. Much of the grain has -already been harvested, but the Bolsheviki have neither the organization organiza-tion nor the transportation facilities to obtain bread for the starving cities, which scarcely can be expected to drag through a breadless winter without turning against a government whose policy has lost the wheat districts. |