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Show Correspondent Gets Into Russia Rus-sia Without Sanction of " Soviet Officials I IDESCRIBES CONDITIONS j AS NIGHTMARE HORROR j Workers Suffer Many Agonies, j With Famine Stalking J Throughout Russia i J (NOTFJ J. II. . Duckworth, I rcpi'Cfenlin;? the Newspaper Kn- leiprlfo Association of which the i SNinttard-ixnitiiner Is tt member, was j-cnt l; Russia to )itcnor I and tell the truth about the Sov- let KOverinncnt It Is toilay. De-nlcii De-nlcii crfirial entry, Duckworth ctnwlcd into 'JlusAin under a barb-clvirc barb-clvirc feiitf s.'x'iil weeks lu cities and the country, obeiintc corx-ditious corx-ditious and talknit: with all klitfK j of pcipie. witMom Br7sliolk hii4i-cr)sion. hii4i-cr)sion. On Afay 15 hewas ar-I ar-I i-estcd in Moscow, thrown into Jail i and then deported with SvLss j icfucees Iq .Nurvn where he was J Ind'viied. Tho iollowliur uticen-j uticen-j sored cabled story from Revo I, I following his release, Is his first (I decouut of Russian conditions as herfound them.) ' (Copyright, ISl'O, Newspaper Enler-prlce Enler-prlce Association.) By J. HERBERT DUCKWORTH (N. E. A, Stuff Correspondent) ItEVAL., Juno C. (By Cable) . I have Just returned after .more than three wcek. Jn Russia,. . J.'..' "I" Have' seen tho "reaf 'Kussfa, not ' tho Russia shown to correspondents by Soviet officials. No other news-' news-' paperman without a permit has croao-I croao-I ed tne frontier, reached Moscow .and returned. , RusJn is a land of horror In-dcjv-i ibablc. Tlic people ;irc sIdh- ! ly stnr hi-- to acmn. tinunt npn-uieue npn-uieue Jiur-es siasu tfie sirceic Tile army is In rajs and its equlp-mtnit equlp-mtnit Is Vprn out. Tlio cii.rTy ardor of the Red revolution rev-olution lfi gone, nnd liolflhevlsni, if not. cruiiihluijCi is slowly decaying. Moscow, another week in the Pskov region, and three days in a Moscow prison dungeon because 1 had entered enter-ed Russia without .a permit. The rest of the tlmo 1 spent traveling trav-eling about, visiting, in all, five provinces: prov-inces: Petrograd, Pskov, Tver, Novgorod Nov-gorod and Moscow. My only instructions were to tell tho truth about Russia in 192U. 1 asked the Soviet government for no assistance and no ravors. WORKERS AND PEASANTS ARE STARVING. Bolshevism Is falling, not he-cause he-cause ol the coumcr revolutionary activities, but because workcis and pensants ure starving. Uon-dltlous Uon-dltlous aro steadily getting worse, and cholera, typhus ana other plagues of lanuiic arc spreading. l interviewed many alleged ('om-j Lmunlsts. Somo adtnittod that tho1 "game was up One man who said I no was a Communist remarked that' Bolshevists aro good destroyers - out! poor builders. Or 000,000 registered Conuuti-nlsu-i, 10o,(J0() me behoved to nc tjincciv and ihe rest ulnipiy re- isluicd to draw workers' lood vu- lions. I It is impossible to livo and remain' healthy even as a government worst-1 or on j.OoO rubles a month, with oread i at 000 rubles a pound, 'ino dully ra-l tion of hair a pound of bread and a' pint of thin caubago or lish soup Is totally insufficient. I have eatun in, Soviet kitchens, and know that MOf-i cow city is a horror. SAYS COMMUNISTS DHCEIA'ED WHITERS. It is true there aro a few theatres open hut no restaurants, ' Other correwpimdenta who hac I told of Moscow ix'Stauraius were I deceived by Bolshevist officials who took iliem to certain Com-miuilhl Com-miuilhl clubs. A few trollios are running and oniy govorntncia uutomobllos, All tlio mg stores aro closed, One train oniy runs dally between Moscow and Pet-' rograd, The railroads are demoralized, Travel Tra-vel permits aro almost impossible to obtain. It is illegal to sell food, and the people everywhere begging for bread, Moscow residents are trading) f ii rn il II im Tilr-fiirrxr rilonna nlAtliii. i iuiiiuuio, 1111,1111 ua, IJlunua, ClOllllllg, and anytliing oblainablo to peasants for food at tho Moscow stations. WOMEN, CHILDREN UVE ON Rli'USE SORAPS. I saw crowds of children, men and women picking uj breail sumps thrown rrom a Red Otobs train, At Tver, Vlshni and Volotchok wayside way-side stations peasants traded milk anil eggs for bruad, refusing money. "What rlq wo want with money?" they asTrou near Tosno, 1 asked a farmor with a family of ulx how ho managed to livo. "Vc live on half a, pound' of black bread daily, except" fin some days when thero isnq jjcoad!" "hp said. Twq ner cunt of j.'iu cotton "nullsil are wof-kfng halt, tlmo: othor mills arc operating at half capacity "four days a Veek; four hours dally. Many 'Russians stopped nie In 'Pskov Streets trying to sell their" Jewelry for food. A Mo'acow Russian, In describing what he called the "Terror," said that on tho slightest suspicion men n '' - t-i.S-i . .;fj 1 '"J f - aro flung into prison and, perhaps, killed. I was told by Jiusslans tluit thero aro (id, 000 in tho Moscow jails, not capitalists' hut workero. AH the Commissars carry reved-ver reved-ver and the )coplo fean them, lted Guurda aro evorywhuro, REIGN Ol)1 BLOOD TO FOLLOW, Tho press is muzzled. For Instance, tho fall of Kiev was lccpt socret for two weeks, Arsenal explosions which shook Moscow whllo 1 was thoro woro suppressed for throo days. I believe tho rule of Lenlno and Troiaky Is near, an end, TIiu 'fyommuuist parly already oontaTny pountuc revolutionary " Ienders; When this pounlei revolution comes there will bo terrlblo blood-: shed. I am convinced that 80 nor cent pf tho Russian people aro sick of the experiment. Thqro is; no liberty, no food, no clothing) no happiness only mlscjt and slarvatjogf |
