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Show iT'S EASY TO DIE I II RED RUSSIA, I SAYS EXILE I Engineer Who Saw Bolshevik Rule From the Inside, Makes j Revelations ! REYAL. Ksthonia, Aug. 21 "It l easy to die In Russia.'' This is the- declaration of If, W. Mamontoff. chemical engineer, who LM held high rank with (he soviet supreme council of natic'iai economy, until hla flight from Russia to Krval. Mamontofl la delivering lectures be fore the Revel Russian Neutral Social-istic Social-istic society. IDs picture of Russia un der red rule corroborates in every de- tail the gr-tphlc dispatches cabled from I here by il-.o Americain lv vvsoaperman. LLM J. H. Duckworth, who made an lndt- LLM pi adent Investigation of Russian en a ditions. The people of Moscow are terriblt ( emaciated," says Mamontoff. "The din. ner in a soviet dining saloon conrisit LLw of a brown liquid called roup wiih 1 LLf floating skeleton of vabla' (fish) In M followed hy mush LLM "Not only the scanty fare but (he LL con?lanl use of saccharin as a sugar LLM substitute, hns made the people thin LL and formed ulcers in thejr stomachs I PHYSICIANS SCARCE "Physicians are scarce and their fees enormous. If one goes (o a soviet doc LL tor ho must wait five or six days and by that time . Ithet his malady cures Itnolf or becomes serloua and perhaps Ij take I his life H I ren simple, remedies like castor oil mav be obtained without a doctor's 1 jorder and then after six days' wait. If "Russian hospitals arc a horror. LL Physicians now operate In rooms I so cold that the Incisions they make il in their patients steam in the cold air. DEATH RATE TERRIBLE. "The mortality rate In Russia h enormous. Burials cannot be held withOUl a permit. T ,ong lines of people Bl ind before the officer of the 'centre 'f;rob' (sanitary burial committee) all j I day long awaiting permission to bury ihi-Ir,de.id. fl It is not uncommon to see a son, as-jisted as-jisted b bifl mother, dragging a lledgs 1 with the bod) Of his father to the bury log ground. There, ihe corpse must be LL roiled from the coffin into the grave the survivors themselves dig." LL I ike Duckworth. Mamontoff was particularly Impressed by the utter dls- LL , ruptlon of Russian railway service. ONE CLASS DYING. Mamontoff explains Russian econom- LL 1 ic conditions. Russia, he says, is dlvid- LLt ed into tour parts: LM The fourth class is rapidly dimin- LLt ishing," he says. "Its members aro LM starving to death. It is the class that earns Its living LLM j "The third Cl&SS has things to sell. LLt When these things are gone its mem- Jbers. too. will starve. LL "The second class Is made up ol I speculator. LL The first class is composed ot LL thoso who still live well, drink vodka LWk at 24,000 rubles a bottle (a ruble be I fore the war was 51 cents) and rid-.- LL j in automobiles. These are the masters LL OFFICE HOLDERS "Mos of tin- inhabitants of Morcow LL are in office The streets are deserted LL during the working hours 10 a. in. to LL 1 p m and after that lime thronged LL wnh offic.His hurrying with portfolios LL Itilled with food. fin working Russia only two classes 1 have ,hc right to exist: First) the workers, and second, children and (he weak who have a certificate from a so- LL 1 l.-ti Institution. LL Workers must be registered as such with a workers' soviet. LL "Places in soviet Institutions are often detained by pull." LL "Whole families are in soviet leXY- LL "But even so, a family cannot earn enough to live on." LL "There is no frepdom of press lu Russia." says Mamontoff. "Only com- LL jmunlsi ii pers are printed.'1 LL Mamontoff deplores the "immoral LL bringing up of the coming genera- LL ' The Kremlin, where the autocrat Lenin lives. Is keenly watched. No one can enter without a permit." he says LL "The population of Morrow Is deep-ily deep-ily depressed and indifferent to all hope jnf a better future. The only interest left is eating!" LL |