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Show TEAR DOWN MOSCOW HOUSES FOR FUEL WARSAW, May 12. Advices from Moscow state that in March there was a great dearth of nearly all kinds of medicines in the Russian city and that many drug stores had been compelled to close. Scarcity of wood and coal was also reported, the information received re-ceived here indlcaing that numerous frame houses and various other buildings build-ings of wood were being demolished to be used as fuel. A Pole who came from Moscow within with-in the laBt few weeks said that while food was terribly expensive there was plenty for those who had rubles which were worth, estimated in American, money, a fraction more than 1 cent A shave cost 75 rubles and soap 800 rubles a pound. CigaretteB were worth about 70 rubles each and matches 100 rubles a box. Horse meat sold for 350 rubles a pound, beef bringing C50 rubles for the same weight Pork was 1000 rubles a pound. Black bread retailed at 350 rubles a pound, butter 2500 and fats 2000 per pound. Sugar brought 1500 a pound when obtainable and salt was nearly always to be had at 750 rubles a pound. Clothing for men anu women was so expensive that the poorer classes either eith-er made their own suits or wore patched patch-ed garments whloh they had owned lor years. : oo |